Deuteronomy 32:9-12

9For the LORD ’s portion is his people, Jacob his allotted inheritance.

10In a desert land he found him, in a barren and howling waste. He shielded him and cared for him; he guarded him as the apple of his eye,

11like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, that spreads its wings to catch them and carries them aloft.

12The LORD alone led him; no foreign god was with him.