Now the earth was formless(A) and empty,(B) darkness was over the surface of the deep,(C) and the Spirit of God(D) was hovering(E) over the waters.

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And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

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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)

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For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

12 So the Lord alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.

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