Deuteronomy 32:9-12

⁹ But God himself took charge of his people, took Jacob on as his personal concern. ¹⁰ He found him out in the wilderness, in an empty, windswept wasteland. He threw his arms around him, lavished attention on him, guarding him as the apple of his eye. ¹¹ He was like an eagle hovering over its nest, overshadowing its young, Then spreading its wings, lifting them into the air, teaching them to fly. ¹² God alone led him; there was not a foreign god in sight.