When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance[a]
and divided the human race,(A)
he set the boundaries of the peoples(B)
according to the number of the people of Israel.[b]
But the Lord’s portion is his people,
Jacob, his own inheritance.(C)

10 He found him in a desolate land,
in a barren, howling wilderness;
he surrounded him, cared for him,(D)
and protected him as the pupil of his eye.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. 32:8 Or Most High divided the nations
  2. 32:8 One DSS reads number of the sons of God; LXX reads number of the angels of God

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