9. But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob, the lot of his inheritance.
10. He discovered him in a desert land, in a place of horror and a vast wilderness. He led him around and taught him, and he guarded him like the pupil of his eye,
11. just as an eagle encourages its young to fly, and, flying above them, stretches out its wings, and takes them up, and carries them on its shoulders.
12. The Lord alone was his leader, and there was no strange god with him.