Deuteronomy 32:9-12

⁹ "For the people of Israel belong to the Lord ; Jacob is his special possession. ¹⁰ He found them in a desert land, in an empty, howling wasteland. He surrounded them and watched over them; he guarded them as he would guard his own eyes. ¹¹ Like an eagle that rouses her chicks and hovers over her young, so he spread his wings to take them up and carried them safely on his pinions. ¹² The Lord alone guided them; they followed no foreign gods.