Deuteronomy 32:13
Good News Translation
"He let them rule the highlands, and they ate what grew in the fields. They found wild honey among the rocks; their olive trees flourished in stony ground.

New Revised Standard Version
He set him atop the heights of the land, and fed him with produce of the field; he nursed him with honey from the crags, with oil from flinty rock;

Contemporary English Version
he helped you capture the land. Your fields were rich with grain. Olive trees grew in your stony soil, and honey was found among the rocks.

New American Bible
He had them mount the summits of the land, fed them the produce of its fields; He suckled them with honey from the crags and olive oil from the flinty rock;

Douay-Rheims Bible
He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,

ride

Deuteronomy 33:26,29 There is no other god like the God of the rightest: he that is mounted upon the heaven is thy helper. By his magnificence the clouds run hither and thither. . . .

Isaiah 58:14 Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Ezekiel 36:2 Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said to you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance.

honey

Job 29:6 When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?

Psalm 81:16 And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

Isaiah 48:21 They thirsted not in the desert, when he led them out: he brought forth water out of the rock for them, and he clove the rock, and the waters gushed out.

Ezekiel 21:17 And I will clap my hands together, and will satisfy my indignation: I the Lord have spoken.

Context
The Song of Moses
12The Lord alone was his leader: and there was no strange god with him. 13He set him upon high land: that he might eat the fruits of the fields, that he might suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the hardest stone,14Butter of the herd, and milk of the sheep with the fat of lambs, and of the rams of the breed of Basan: and goats with the marrow of wheat, and might drink the purest blood of the grape.…
Cross References
Deuteronomy 8:8
A land of wheat, and barley, and vineyards, wherein fig trees and pomegranates, and oliveyards grow: a land of oil and honey.

Deuteronomy 8:15
And was thy leader in the great and terrible wilderness, wherein there was the serpent burning with his breath, and the scorpion and the dipsas, and no waters at all: who brought forth streams out of the hardest rock,

2 Samuel 22:34
Making my feet like the feet of harts, and setting me upon my high places.

Job 20:17
Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.

Job 29:6
When I washed my feet with butter, and the rock poured me out rivers of oil?

Psalm 18:33
Who hath made my feet like the feet of harts: and who setteth me upon high places.

Psalm 81:16
And he fed them with the fat of wheat, and filled them with honey out of the rock.

Isaiah 58:14
Then shalt thou be delighted in the Lord, and I will lift thee up above the high places of the earth, and will feed thee with the inheritance of Jacob thy father. For the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Ezekiel 36:2
Thus saith the Lord God: Because the enemy hath said to you: Aha, the everlasting heights are given to us for an inheritance.

Hosea 13:6
According to their pastures they were filled, and were made full: and they lifted up their heart, and have forgotten me.

Deuteronomy 32:12
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