Deuteronomy 8:7-10
8:7 For the
Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks,
springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,
8:8 a land of wheat, barley, vines, fig trees, and pomegranates, of olive trees and honey,
8:9 a land where you may eat food
in plenty and find no lack of anything, a land whose stones are iron
and from whose hills you can mine copper.
8:10 You will eat your fill and then praise the
Lord your God because of the good land he has given you.
Deuteronomy 31:21
31:21 Then when
many disasters and distresses overcome them
this song will testify against them,
for their
descendants will not forget it.
I know the
intentions they have in mind
today, even before I bring them
to the land I have promised.”
Deuteronomy 32:12-15
32:12 The Lord alone was guiding him,
no foreign god was with him.
32:13 He enabled him to travel over the high terrain of the land,
and he ate of the produce of the fields.
He provided honey for him from the cliffs,
and olive oil from the hardest of rocks,
32:14 butter from the herd
and milk from the flock,
along with the fat of lambs,
rams and goats of Bashan,
along with the best of the kernels of wheat;
and from the juice of grapes you drank wine.
Israel’s Rebellion
32:15 But Jeshurun became fat and kicked,
you got fat, thick, and stuffed!
Then he deserted the God who made him,
and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.