Deuteronomy 32:9

American Standard Version

For Jehovah’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

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Deuteronomy 32:9 in other translations

For Yahweh’s portion is his people.
Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

Deuteronomy 32:9 · World English Bible

Deuteronomy 32:9 in context

  1. 7Remember the days of old, Consider the years of many generations: Ask thy father, and he will show thee; Thine elders, and they will tell thee.
  2. 8When the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, When he separated the children of men, He set the bounds of the peoples According to the number of the children of Israel.
  3. 9For Jehovah’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.
  4. 10He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.
  5. 11As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, That fluttereth over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bare them on his pinions.