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)