Deuteronomy 32:9-12

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.