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⁹ the Lord’s own portion was his people,
   Jacob his allotted share.

¹⁰ He sustained^* him in a desert land,
   in a howling wilderness waste;
he shielded him, cared for him,
   guarded him as the apple of his eye.
¹¹ As an eagle stirs up its nest,
   and hovers over its young;
as it spreads its wings, takes them up,
   and bears them aloft on its pinions,
¹² the Lord alone guided him;
   no foreign god was with him.
¹³ He set him upon the heights of the land,
   and fed him with^* produce of the field;
he nursed him with honey from the crags,
   with oil from flinty rock;
¹⁴ curds from the herd, and milk from the flock,
   with fat of lambs and rams;
Bashan bulls and goats,
   together with the choicest wheat—
   you drank fine wine from the blood of grapes.
¹⁵ Jacob ate his fill;^*
   Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked.
   You grew fat, bloated, and gorged!
He abandoned God who made him,
   and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.