Deuteronomy 32:9-13

“For the Lord’s portion is His people; Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.

“He found him in a desert land, And in the howling wasteland of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

“As an eagle stirs up its nest, And hovers over its young, He spread His wings, He caught them, He carried them on His pinions.

“The Lord alone guided him, And there was no foreign god with him.

“He had him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And He had him suck honey from the rock, And oil from the flinty rock,