a land with wheat and barley,(A) vines(B) and fig trees,(C) pomegranates, olive oil and honey;(D) a land where bread(E) will not be scarce and you will lack nothing;(F) a land where the rocks are iron and you can dig copper out of the hills.(G)

10 When you have eaten and are satisfied,(H) praise the Lord your God for the good land he has given you. 11 Be careful that you do not forget(I) the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day.

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12 The Lord alone led(A) him;(B)
    no foreign god was with him.(C)

13 He made him ride on the heights(D) of the land
    and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,(E)
    and with oil(F) from the flinty crag,
14 with curds and milk from herd and flock
    and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan(G)
    and the finest kernels of wheat.(H)
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.(I)

15 Jeshurun[a](J) grew fat(K) and kicked;
    filled with food, they became heavy and sleek.
They abandoned(L) the God who made them
    and rejected the Rock(M) their Savior.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:15 Jeshurun means the upright one, that is, Israel.

Surely your goodness and love(A) will follow me
    all the days of my life,
and I will dwell in the house of the Lord
    forever.

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Do not remember the sins of my youth(A)
    and my rebellious ways;(B)
according to your love(C) remember me,
    for you, Lord, are good.(D)

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16 Answer me, Lord, out of the goodness of your love;(A)
    in your great mercy turn to me.

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