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Is this the way you treat Jehovah?

O foolish people,

Is not God your Father?

Has he not created you?

Has he not established you and made you strong?

Remember the days of long ago!

(Ask your father and the aged men;

They will tell you all about it.)

When God divided up the world among the nations,

He gave each of them a supervising angel!

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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)

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)
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)

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:6 Or Father, who bought you
  2. Deuteronomy 32:8 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls (see also Septuagint) sons of God