Israel’s Corruption and Ingratitude

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"He is not corrupt; the defect is in his children, a crooked and perverted generation.

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You foolish people, so lacking in wisdom, is this how you repay ADONAI? He is your father, who made you his! It was he who formed and prepared you!

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"Remember how the old days were; think of the years through all the ages. Ask your father -he will tell you; your leaders too -they will inform you.

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"When 'Elyon gave each nation its heritage, when he divided the human race, he assigned the boundaries of peoples according to Isra'el's population;

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but ADONAI's share was his own people, Ya'akov his allotted heritage.

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"He found his people in desert country, in a howling, wasted wilderness. He protected him and cared for him, guarded him like the pupil of his eye,

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like an eagle that stirs up her nest, hovers over her young, spreads out her wings, takes them and carries them as she flies.

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"ADONAI alone led his people; no alien god was with him.

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He made them ride on the heights of the earth. They ate the produce of the fields. He had them suck honey from the rocks and olive oil from the crags,

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curds from the cows and milk from the sheep, with lamb fat, rams from Bashan and goats, with the finest wheat flour; and you drank sparkling wine from the blood of grapes.

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