4 The rock: his acts are perfection!No doubt about it: all his ways are right!He’s the faithful God, never deceiving;altogether righteous and true is he.
5 But children who weren’t his ownsinned against him with their defects;they are a twisted and perverse generation.
6 Is this how you thank the Lord, you stupid, senseless people?Isn’t he your father, your creator?Didn’t he make you and establish you?
7 Remember the days long past;consider the years long gone.Ask your father, he will tell you about it;ask your elders, they will give you the details:
8 When God Most High divided up the nations—when he divided up humankind—he decided the people’s boundariesbased on the number of the gods.
9 Surely the Lord’s property was his people;Jacob was his part of the inheritance.
10 God found Israel in a wild land—in a howling desert wasteland—he protected him, cared for him,watched over him with his very own eye.