Exodus 19:3-6
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3 Then Moses went up to God; the Lord called to him from the mountain, “Thus you shall say to the house of Jacob and tell the Israelites:(A) 4 ‘You have seen what I did to the Egyptians and how I bore you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself.(B) 5 Now, therefore, if you obey my voice and keep my covenant, you shall be my treasured possession out of all the peoples. Indeed, the whole earth is mine,(C) 6 but you shall be for me a priestly kingdom and a holy nation.’ These are the words that you shall speak to the Israelites.”(D)
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Deuteronomy 32:7-12
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7 Remember the days of old;
consider the years long past;
ask your father, and he will inform you,
your elders, and they will tell you.(A)
8 When the Most High[a] apportioned the nations,
when he divided humankind,
he fixed the boundaries of the peoples
according to the number of the gods;[b](B)
9 the Lord’s own portion was his people,
Jacob his allotted share.(C)
10 He sustained[c] him in a desert land,
in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
guarded him as the apple of his eye.(D)
11 As an eagle stirs up its nest
and hovers over its young,
as it spreads its wings, takes them up,
and bears them aloft on its pinions,(E)
12 the Lord alone guided him;
no foreign god was with him.(F)
Isaiah 40:28-31
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28 Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He does not faint or grow weary;
his understanding is unsearchable.(A)
29 He gives power to the faint
and strengthens the powerless.(B)
30 Even youths will faint and be weary,
and the young will fall exhausted,
31 but those who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength;
they shall mount up with wings like eagles;
they shall run and not be weary;
they shall walk and not faint.(C)
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