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Deuteronomy 32:13 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock; "
Deuteronomy 32:13
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11 As an eagle that stirs up her nest, that flutters over her young, he spread abroad his wings, he took them, he bore them on his feathers.
12 The LORD alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth. He ate the increase of the field. He caused him to suck honey out of the rock, oil out of the flinty rock;
14 butter from the herd, and milk from the flock, with fat of lambs, rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats, with the finest of the wheat. From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.
15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
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Deuteronomy 32:1
"Give ear, you heavens, and I will speak. Let the earth hear the words of my mouth."
Deuteronomy 32:2
"My doctrine will drop as the rain. My speech will condense as the dew, as the misty rain on the tender grass, as the showers on the herb."
Deuteronomy 32:3
"For I will proclaim the LORD’s name. Ascribe greatness to our God!"
Deuteronomy 32:4
"The Rock: his work is perfect, for all his ways are just. A God of faithfulness who does no wrong, just and right is he."
Deuteronomy 32:5
"They have dealt corruptly with him. They are not his children, because of their defect. They are a perverse and crooked generation."
Deuteronomy 32:6
"Is this the way you repay the LORD, foolish and unwise people? Isn’t he your father who has bought you? He has made you and established you."
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