When the Most High (A)gave to the nations their inheritance,
    when he (B)divided mankind,
he fixed the borders[a] of the peoples
    according to the number of the sons of God.[b]
But the Lord's portion is his people,
    Jacob his allotted heritage.

10 “He found him (C)in a desert land,
    and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he (D)encircled him, he cared for him,
    he (E)kept him as the apple of his eye.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 32:8 Or territories
  2. Deuteronomy 32:8 Compare Dead Sea Scroll, Septuagint; Masoretic Text sons of Israel

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