⁹ For Yahweh’s portion is his people.
    Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
¹⁰ He found him in a desert land,
    in the waste howling wilderness.
He surrounded him.
    He cared for him.
    He kept him as the apple of his eye.

¹² Yahweh alone led him.
    There was no foreign god with him.

¹⁴ butter from the herd, and milk from the flock,
    with fat of lambs,
    rams of the breed of Bashan, and goats,
    with the finest of the wheat.
    From the blood of the grape, you drank wine.

⁹ They will come with weeping.
    I will lead them with petitions.
I will cause them to walk by rivers of waters,
    in a straight way in which they won’t stumble;
for I am a father to Israel.
    Ephraim is my firstborn.

⁴ Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
    I will fear no evil, for you are with me.
Your rod and your staff,
    they comfort me.

³ For you are my rock and my fortress,
    therefore for your name’s sake lead me and guide me.

⁸ I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go.
    I will counsel you with my eye on you.