⁹ For the Lord’s portion^(A) is his people,
    Jacob his allotted inheritance.^(B)

¹⁰ In a desert^(C) land he found him,
    in a barren and howling waste.^(D)
He shielded^(E) him and cared for him;
    he guarded him as the apple of his eye,^(F)
11 like an eagle that stirs up its nest
    and hovers over its young,^(G)
that spreads its wings to catch them
    and carries them aloft.^(H)
12 The Lord alone led^(I) him;^(J)
    no foreign god was with him.^(K)