6. "Do you thus repay the Lord, O foolish and unwise people? Is not He your Father who has bought you? He has made you and established you.
7. "Remember the days of old, Consider the years of all generations. Ask your father, and he will inform you, Your elders, and they will tell you.
8. "When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, When He separated the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples According to the number of the sons of Israel.
9. "For the Lord's portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.
10. "He found him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the pupil of His eye.