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)

¹³ He made him ride on the heights^(L) of the land
    and fed him with the fruit of the fields.
He nourished him with honey from the rock,^(M)
    and with oil^(N) from the flinty crag,
¹⁴ with curds and milk from herd and flock
    and with fattened lambs and goats,
with choice rams of Bashan^(O)
    and the finest kernels of wheat.^(P)
You drank the foaming blood of the grape.^(Q)

¹⁷ This is what the Lord says—
    your Redeemer,^(A) the Holy One^(B) of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
    who teaches^(C) you what is best for you,
    who directs^(D) you in the way^(E) you should go.
¹⁸ If only you had paid attention^(F) to my commands,
    your peace^(G) would have been like a river,^(H)
    your well-being^(I) like the waves of the sea.
¹⁹ Your descendants^(J) would have been like the sand,^(K)
    your children like its numberless grains;^(L)
their name would never be blotted out^(M)
    nor destroyed from before me.”

²⁰ Leave Babylon,
    flee^(N) from the Babylonians!
Announce this with shouts of joy^(O)
    and proclaim it.
Send it out to the ends of the earth;^(P)
    say, “The Lord has redeemed^(Q) his servant Jacob.”
²¹ They did not thirst^(R) when he led them through the deserts;
    he made water flow^(S) for them from the rock;
he split the rock
    and water gushed out.^(T)