Deuteronomy 32:6-9
The Message
6-7 Don’t you realize it is God you are treating like this?
This is crazy; don’t you have any sense of reverence?
Isn’t this your father who created you,
who made you and gave you a place on Earth?
Read up on what happened before you were born;
dig into the past, understand your roots.
Ask your parents what it was like before you were born;
ask the old-ones, they’ll tell you a thing or two.
8-9 When the High God gave the nations their stake,
gave them their place on Earth,
He put each of the peoples within boundaries
under the care of divine guardians.
But God himself took charge of his people,
took Jacob on as his personal concern.
Deuteronomy 32:6-8
New International Version
6 Is this the way you repay(A) the Lord,
you foolish(B) and unwise people?(C)
Is he not your Father,(D) your Creator,[a]
who made you and formed you?(E)
7 Remember the days of old;(F)
consider the generations long past.(G)
Ask your father and he will tell you,
your elders, and they will explain to you.(H)
8 When the Most High(I) gave the nations their inheritance,
when he divided all mankind,(J)
he set up boundaries(K) for the peoples
according to the number of the sons of Israel.[b](L)
Footnotes
- Deuteronomy 32:6 Or Father, who bought you
- Deuteronomy 32:8 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) sons of God
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