4 The Rock—how faultless are his deeds,how right all his ways!A faithful God, without deceit,just and upright is he!
5 Yet his degenerate children have treated him basely,a twisted and crooked generation!
6 Is this how you repay the Lord,so foolish and unwise a people?Is he not your father who begot you,the one who made and established you?
7 Remember the days of old,consider the years of generations past.Ask your father, he will inform you,your elders, they will tell you:
8 When the Most High allotted each nation its heritage,when he separated out human beings,He set up the boundaries of the peoplesafter the number of the divine beings;
9 But the Lord’s portion was his people;his allotted share was Jacob.
10 He found them in a wilderness,a wasteland of howling desert.He shielded them, cared for them,guarded them as the apple of his eye.