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For Yahweh’s portion was his people,
    Jacob the share of his inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land,
    and in a howling, desert wasteland;
he encircled him,[a] he cared for him,
    he protected him like the apple[b] of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirs up its nest,
    hovers over its young,
spreads out its wings, takes them,[c]
    carries them[d] on its pinions,[e]
12 so Yahweh alone guided him,[f]
    and there was no foreign god accompanying him.[g]

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:10 Literally “moved around him”
  2. Deuteronomy 32:10 Literally “pupil”
  3. Deuteronomy 32:11 Hebrew “it” but used poetically and with plural sense in context
  4. Deuteronomy 32:11 Hebrew “it” but used poetically and with plural sense in context
  5. Deuteronomy 32:11 Hebrew “pinion”
  6. Deuteronomy 32:12 That is, Jacob, standing for Israel
  7. Deuteronomy 32:12 Literally “and there was not with him a god foreign/strange”