10  “He found him in a desert land,

and in the howling waste of the wilderness;

he encircled him, he cared for him,

he kept him as the ^oapple of his eye.

11  Like an eagle that stirs up its nest,

that flutters over its young,

spreading out its wings, catching them,

^pbearing them on its pinions,

12  the Lord alone ^qguided him,

no foreign god was with him.

3  “Listen to me, O house of Jacob,

all the ^rremnant of the house of Israel,

who have been ^sborne by me ^tfrom before your birth,

carried from the womb;

4  ^ueven to your old age ^vI am he,

and to gray hairs I will carry you.

I have made, and I will bear;

I will carry and will save.

9  In all their affliction he was afflicted,¹

and the angel of his presence saved them;

in his ⁱlove and in his pity he redeemed them;

he lifted them up and ^jcarried them all the days of old.

3  ^tYet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk;

I took them up by their arms,

but they did not know that ^uI healed them.