7 Remember the old days.Think of the years already passed.Ask your father. He will tell you.Ask your elders. They will inform you.
8 The Most High God gave the nations their lands.He divided up the human race.He set up borders for the people.He even numbered the Israelites.
9 The Lord took his people as his share.The people of Jacob were his very own.
10 He found them in a desert.It was a windy, empty land.He surrounded them and brought them up.He guarded them as those he loved very much.
11 He was like an eagle building its nest.It flutters over its young.It spreads its wings to catch them.It carries them on its feathers.
12 The Lord alone led them.There were no foreign gods among them.
13 The Lord brought them to the heights of the land.He fed them the fruit of the fields.He gave them honey from the rocks.He brought oil from the solid rock.