7 “Remember the days of old,

Consider the years of all generations.

aAsk your father, and he will inform you,

Your elders, and they will tell you.

8 “aWhen the Most High gave the nations their inheritance,

When He separated the sons of 1man,

He set the boundaries of the peoples

bAccording to the number of the sons of Israel.

9 “aFor the Lord’s portion is His people;

Jacob is the allotment of His inheritance.

10 “aHe found him in a desert land,

And in the howling waste of a wilderness;

He encircled him, He cared for him,

He guarded him as bthe pupil of His eye.

11 “aLike an eagle that stirs up its nest,

That hovers over its young,

bHe spread His wings and caught them,

He carried them on His pinions.

12 “aThe Lord alone guided him,

bAnd there was no foreign god with him.

13 “aHe made him ride on the high places of the earth,

And he ate the produce of the field;

bAnd He made him suck honey from the rock,

And coil from the flinty rock,

14 Curds of cows, and milk of the flock,

With fat of lambs,

And rams, the breed of Bashan, and goats,

aWith the finest of the wheat—

And of the bblood of grapes you drank wine.