³ For I will proclaim the name of Jehovah:
Ascribe ye greatness unto our God.
⁴ The Rock, his work is perfect;
For all his ways are justice:
A God of faithfulness and without iniquity,
Just and right is he.
⁵ They have ^[a]dealt corruptly with him, they are not his children, ^[b]it is their blemish;
They are a perverse and crooked generation.
⁶ Do ye thus requite Jehovah,
O foolish people and unwise?
Is not he thy father that hath ^[c]bought thee?
He hath made thee, and established thee.
⁷ Remember the days of old,
Consider the years of many generations:
Ask thy father, and he will show thee;
Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
⁸ When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance,
When he separated the children of men,
He set the bounds of the peoples
According to the number of the children of Israel.
⁹ For Jehovah’s portion is his people;
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

¹² Jehovah alone did lead him,
And there was no foreign god with him.
¹³ He made him ride on the high places of the earth,
And he did eat the increase of the field;
And he made him to suck honey out of the rock,
And oil out of the flinty rock;
¹⁴ Butter of the herd, and milk of the flock,
With fat of lambs,
And rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
With the ^[a]finest of the wheat;
And of the blood of the grape thou drankest wine.
¹⁵ But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked:
Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek;
Then he forsook God who made him,
And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
¹⁶ They moved him to jealousy with strange gods;
With abominations provoked they him to anger.
¹⁷ They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God,
To gods that they knew not,
To new gods that came up of late,
Which your fathers dreaded not.
¹⁸ Of the Rock that ^[b]begat thee thou art unmindful,
And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.
¹⁹ And Jehovah saw it, and abhorred them,
Because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
²⁰ And he said, I will hide my face from them,
I will see what their end shall be:
For they are a very perverse generation,
Children in whom is no faithfulness.

³ God, my rock, in him will I take refuge;
My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge;
My saviour, thou savest me from violence.

^8 [a]Salvation belongeth unto Jehovah:
Thy blessing be upon thy people. Selah

⁶⁹ And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us
In the house of his servant David

⁷⁷ To give knowledge of salvation unto his people
In the remission of their sins,