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DEUTERONOMY
- Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
- He found him in a desert land,
- And in the waste howling wilderness;
- He led him about, he instructed him,
- He kept him as the apple of his eye.
- As an eagle stirreth up her nest,
- Fluttereth over her young,
- Spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,
- Beareth them on her wings:
- So the Lord alone did lead him.
- And there was no strange god with him.
- He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
- That he might eat the increase of the fields;
- And he made him to suck honey out of the rock,
- And oil out of the flinty rock;
- Butter of kine, and milk of sheep.
- With fat of lambs,
- And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
- With the fat of kidneys of wheat;
- And thou didst drink the pure blood of the grape.
- But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked:
- Thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou
- art covered with fatness;
- Then he forsook God which made him.
- And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
- They provoked him to jealousy with strange gods,
- With abominations provoked they him to anger.
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