Deuteronomy 32:9-11

New Catholic Bible

⁹ The Lord’s own portion was his people,
    Jacob his allotted inheritance.
¹⁰ He found him in a desert land,
    a waste and howling wilderness.
He shielded him, he instructed him;
    He guarded him as the apple of his eye.
¹¹ Like an eagle that awakens its nest,
    and hovers over its young,
he spread his wings and snatched him,
    bearing him up on his pinions.