⁷ “Remember the days of antiquity,
understand the years across generations.^[a]
Ask your father and he will tell you,
    your elders and they will say to you.
⁸ When Elyon gave nations their heritage,
when He separated the sons of man,
He set boundaries for the people
    by the number of Bnei-Yisrael.
⁹ But Adonai’s portion is His people—
Jacob is the share of His inheritance.
¹⁰ He found him in the wilderness land,
in the void of a howling waste.
He surrounded him, cared for him,
    guarded him as the pupil of His eye.
¹¹ As an eagle stirs up its nest,
    hovers over its young,
He spreads His wings, catches him,
    lifts him up on His pinions.
¹² Adonai alone guided him—
there was no foreign god with him.