Deuteronomy 32:5-20
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They have dealt corruptly with him;
they are no longer his children t because they are blemished;
they are u a crooked and twisted generation.
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Do you thus repay the Lord,
you foolish and senseless people?
Is not he v your father, who w created you,
who x made you and established you?
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y Remember the days of old;
consider the years of many generations;
z ask your father, and he will show you,
your elders, and they will tell you.
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When the Most High a gave to the nations their inheritance,
when he b divided mankind,
he fixed the borders of the peoples
according to the number of the sons of God.
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But the Lord's portion is his people,
Jacob his allotted heritage.
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"He found him c in a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he d encircled him, he cared for him,
he e kept him as the apple of his eye.
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f Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,
that flutters over its young,
spreading out its wings, catching them,
bearing them on its pinions,
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g the Lord alone guided him,
h no foreign god was with him.
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i He made him ride on the high places of the land,
and he ate the produce of the field,
and he suckled him with j honey out of the rock,
and k oil out of l the flinty rock.
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Curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
with fat of lambs,
rams of Bashan and goats,
with the very finest of the wheat -
and you drank foaming wine made from m the blood of the grape.
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"But n Jeshurun grew fat, and o kicked;
p you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
q then he forsook God r who made him
and scoffed at s the Rock of his salvation.
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t They stirred him to jealousy with strange gods;
with abominations they provoked him to anger.
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u They sacrificed to demons that were no gods,
to gods they had never known,
to v new gods that had come recently,
whom your fathers had never dreaded.
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You were unmindful of w the Rock that bore you,
and you x forgot the God who gave you birth.
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y "The Lord saw it and spurned them,
because of the provocation of z his sons and his daughters.
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And he said, a 'I will hide my face from them;
I will see what their end will be,
For they are a perverse generation,
children in whom is no faithfulness.
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2 Peter 2:13
Suffering wrong as the wage for their wrongdoing. They count it pleasure to revel in the daytime. They are blots and blemishes, reveling in their deceptions, while they feast with you.
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Matthew 17:17
And Jesus answered, "O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you? How long am I to bear with you? Bring him here to me.
Luke 9:41
Jesus answered, "O faithless and twisted generation, how long am I to be with you and bear with you? Bring your son here.
Philippians 2:15
That you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world.
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Isaiah 63:16
For you are our Father, though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our Father, our Redeemer from of old is your name.
Isaiah 64:8
But now, O Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we are all the work of your hand.
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Psalms 74:2
Remember your congregation, which you have purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your heritage! Remember Mount Zion, where you have dwelt.
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Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked; you grew fat, stout, and sleek; then he forsook God who made him and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
Isaiah 44:2
Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
Isaiah 51:13
And have forgotten the Lord, your Maker, who stretched out the heavens and laid the foundations of the earth, and you fear continually all the day because of the wrath of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the wrath of the oppressor?
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Isaiah 63:11
Then he remembered the days of old, of Moses and his people. Where is he who brought them up out of the sea with the shepherds of his flock? Where is he who put in the midst of them his Holy Spirit.
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Psalms 44:1
O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, what deeds you performed in their days, in the days of old:
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Acts 17:26
And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place.
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Genesis 11:8
So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
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Deuteronomy 8:15
Who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock.
Jeremiah 2:6
They did not say, 'Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?
Hosea 13:5
It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
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Psalms 32:10
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the Lord.
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Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings.
Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye.
Zechariah 2:8
For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
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Exodus 19:4
You yourselves have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I bore you on eagles' wings and brought you to myself.
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Psalms 78:52 - 53
Then he led out his people like sheep and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
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Isaiah 43:12
I declared and saved and proclaimed, when there was no strange god among you; and you are my witnesses," declares the Lord, "and I am God.
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Isaiah 58:14
Then you shall take delight in the Lord, and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth; I will feed you with the heritage of Jacob your father, for the mouth of the Lord has spoken.
Ezekiel 36:2
Thus says the Lord God : Because the enemy said of you, 'Aha!' and, 'The ancient heights have become our possession.
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Psalms 81:16
But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat, and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.
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Job 29:6
When my steps were washed with butter, and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!
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Deuteronomy 8:15
Who led you through the great and terrifying wilderness, with its fiery serpents and scorpions and thirsty ground where there was no water, who brought you water out of the flinty rock.
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Genesis 49:11
Binding his foal to the vine and his donkey's colt to the choice vine, he has washed his garments in wine and his vesture in the blood of grapes.
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Deuteronomy 33:5
Thus the Lord became king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.
Deuteronomy 33:26
There is none like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the heavens to your help, through the skies in his majesty.
Isaiah 44:2
Thus says the Lord who made you, who formed you from the womb and will help you: Fear not, O Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
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1 Samuel 2:29
Why then do you scorn my sacrifices and my offerings that I commanded, and honor your sons above me by fattening yourselves on the choicest parts of every offering of my people Israel?
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Deuteronomy 31:20
For when I have brought them into the land flowing with milk and honey, which I swore to give to their fathers, and they have eaten and are full and grown fat, they will turn to other gods and serve them, and despise me and break my covenant.
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Deuteronomy 31:16
And the Lord said to Moses, "Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers. Then this people will rise and whore after the foreign gods among them in the land that they are entering, and they will forsake me and break my covenant that I have made with them.
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Deuteronomy 32:6
Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not he your father, who created you, who made you and established you?
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2 Samuel 22:47
The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.
Psalms 89:26
He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
Psalms 95:1
Oh come, let us sing to the Lord ; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
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Psalms 78:58
For they provoked him to anger with their high places; they moved him to jealousy with their idols.
Numbers 25:11
Phinehas the son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the priest, has turned back my wrath from the people of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I did not consume the people of Israel in my jealousy.
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Psalms 106:37
They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to the demons.
1 Corinthians 10:20
No, I imply that what pagans sacrifice they offer to demons and not to God. I do not want you to be participants with demons.
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Judges 5:8
When new gods were chosen, then war was in the gates. Was shield or spear to be seen among forty thousand in Israel?
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2 Samuel 22:47
The Lord lives, and blessed be my rock, and exalted be my God, the rock of my salvation.
Psalms 89:26
He shall cry to me, 'You are my Father, my God, and the Rock of my salvation.
Psalms 95:1
Oh come, let us sing to the Lord ; let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation!
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Isaiah 17:10
For you have forgotten the God of your salvation and have not remembered the Rock of your refuge; therefore, though you plant pleasant plants and sow the vine-branch of a stranger.
Jeremiah 2:27
Who say to a tree, 'You are my father,' and to a stone, 'You gave me birth.' For they have turned their back to me, and not their face. But in the time of their trouble they say, 'Arise and save us!
Jeremiah 2:32
Can a virgin forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me days without number.
Hosea 8:14
For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces, and Judah has multiplied fortified cities; so I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour her strongholds.
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Judges 2:14
So the anger of the Lord was kindled against Israel, and he gave them over to plunderers, who plundered them. And he sold them into the hand of their surrounding enemies, so that they could no longer withstand their enemies.
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Isaiah 1:2
Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for the Lord has spoken: "Children have I reared and brought up, but they have rebelled against me.
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Deuteronomy 31:17
Then my anger will be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured. And many evils and troubles will come upon them, so that they will say in that day, 'Have not these evils come upon us because our God is not among us?
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