⁸ When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance^[a]
and divided the human race,^(A)
he set the boundaries of the peoples^(B)
according to the number of the people of Israel.^[b]
9 But the Lord’s portion is his people,
Jacob, his own inheritance.^(C)

² Remember your congregation,
which you purchased long ago
and redeemed as the tribe for your own possession.^(A)
Remember Mount Zion where you dwell.^(B)

⁷¹ he brought him from tending ewes
to be shepherd over his people Jacob—
over Israel, his inheritance.^(A)

¹⁷ Why, Lord, do you make us stray from your ways?
You harden our hearts so we do not fear^[a] you.^(A)
Return, because of your servants,
the tribes of your heritage.