Deuteronomy 32:8-10

Contemporary English Version

⁸^(A) that God Most High
    gave land to every nation.
He assigned a guardian angel
    to each of them,^[a]
⁹but the Lord himself
    takes care of Israel.^[b]

¹⁰Israel, the Lord discovered you
in a barren desert
filled with howling winds.
God became your fortress,
protecting you as though
you were his own eyes.

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Footnotes

32.8 He assigned … them: The Dead Sea Scrolls and one ancient translation; the Standard Hebrew Text “So there were as many nations as Israel (that is, Jacob) had children.”
32.9 Israel: The Hebrew text has “Jacob,” another name for Israel's ancestor.