5They have become false, they are not his children, the mark of sin is on them; they are an evil and hard-hearted generation.
6Is this your answer to the Lord, O foolish people and unwise? Is he not your father who has given you life? He has made you and given you your place.
7Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.
8When the Most High gave the nations their heritage, separating into groups the children of men, he had the limits of the peoples marked out, keeping in mind the number of the children of Israel.
9For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.
10He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.
11As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:
