You established your people Israel to be your own people for ever, and you, Lord, have become their God.
Deuteronomy 32:6 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Is this how you repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Isn’t he your Father and Creator? , Didn’t he make you and sustain you? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Do ye thus requite the LORD, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? Hath he not made thee, and established thee? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Do you thus repay the Lord, you foolish and senseless people? Is not He your Father Who acquired you for His own, Who made and established you [as a nation]? American Standard Version (1901) Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and established thee. Common English Bible Is this how you thank the LORD, you stupid, senseless people? Isn’t he your father, your creator? Didn’t he make you and establish you? Catholic Public Domain Version How can this be the return you would offer to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is he himself not your Father, who has possessed you, and made you, and created you? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Is this the return thou makest to the Lord, O foolish and senseless people? Is not he thy father, that hath possessed thee, and made thee, and created thee? |
You established your people Israel to be your own people for ever, and you, Lord, have become their God.
‘Your hands shaped me and formed me. Will you now turn and destroy me?
terror and dread will fall on them. They will be as still as a stone because of your powerful arm until your people pass by, Lord, until the people whom you purchased pass by.
And you will say to Pharaoh: This is what the Lord says: Israel is my firstborn son.
Listen, heavens, and pay attention, earth, for the Lord has spoken: ‘I have raised children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.
When its branches dry out, they will be broken off. Women will come and make fires with them, for they are not a people with understanding. Therefore their Maker will not have compassion on them, and their Creator will not be gracious to them.
Now this is what the Lord says – the one who created you, Jacob, and the one who formed you, Israel – ‘Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by your name; you are mine.
everyone who bears my name and is created for my glory. I have formed them; indeed, I have made them.’
This is the word of the Lord your Maker, the one who formed you from the womb: He will help you. Do not fear, Jacob my servant, Jeshurun whom I have chosen.
Yet you are our Father, even though Abraham does not know us and Israel doesn’t recognise us. You, Lord, are our Father; your name is Our Redeemer from Ancient Times.
Yet Lord, you are our Father; we are the clay, and you are our potter; we all are the work of your hands.
‘For my people are fools; they do not know me. They are foolish children, without understanding. They are skilled in doing what is evil, but they do not know how to do what is good.’
Hear this, you foolish and senseless people. They have eyes, but they don’t see. They have ears, but they don’t hear.
Labour pains come on him. He is not a wise son; when the time comes, he will not be born. ,
‘A son honours his father, and a servant his master. But if I am a father, where is my honour? And if I am a master, where is your fear of me? says the Lord of Armies to you priests, who despise my name.’ Yet you ask, ‘How have we despised your name? ’
You’re doing what your father does.’ ‘We weren’t born of sexual immorality,’ they said. ‘We have one Father #– #God.’
Be on guard for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as overseers, to shepherd the church of God, which he purchased with his own blood.
For you did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear. Instead, you received the Spirit of adoption, by whom we cry out, ‘Abba, Father! ’
And because you are sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, ‘Abba, Father! ’
And you saw in the wilderness how the Lord your God carried you as a man carries his son all along the way you travelled until you reached this place.
‘You are sons of the Lord your God; do not cut yourselves or make a bald spot on your head on behalf of the dead,
Then Jeshurun , became fat and rebelled – you became fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.
You ignored the Rock who gave you birth; you forgot the God who gave birth to you.
There were indeed false prophets among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you. They will bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, and will bring swift destruction on themselves.
See what great love the Father has given us that we should be called God’s children #– #and we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it didn’t know him.