KJV King James Version
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
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Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
WEB World English Bible
He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.
ASV American Standard Version
He 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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
He findeth him in a land—a desert, And in a void—a howling wilderness, He turneth him round—He causeth him to understand—He keepeth him as the apple of His eye.
Surrounding context — Deuteronomy 32
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.
8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9 For the LORD’S portion [is] his people; Jacob [is] the lot of his inheritance.
10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.
11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:
12 [So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with him.
13 He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;
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יִמְצָאֵ֙הוּ֙H4672 · ma.tsato findבְּאֶ֣רֶץH776 · e.retsland: country/planetמִדְבָּ֔רH4057 · mid.barmouthוּבְתֹ֖הוּH8414 · to.huformlessnessיְלֵ֣לH3214 · ye.lelhowlingיְשִׁמֹ֑ןH3452 · ye.shi.monJeshimonיְסֹֽבְבֶ֙נְהוּ֙H5437 · sa.vavto turn: turnיְב֣וֹנְנֵ֔הוּH995 · binto understandיִצְּרֶ֖נְהוּH5341 · na.tsarto watchכְּאִישׁ֥וֹןH380 · i.shonpupilעֵינֽוֹ׃H5869 · a.yineye
Cross-references
Zechariah 2:8For thus saith the LORD of hosts; After the glory hath he sent me unto the nations which spoiled you: for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.Deuteronomy 8:15-16Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, [wherein were] fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where [there was] no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;Hosea 13:5I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.Psalm 17:8Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,Jeremiah 2:6Neither said they, Where [is] the LORD that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and of pits, through a land of drought, and of the shadow of death, through a land that no man passed through, and where no man dwelt?Psalm 32:7-10Thou [art] my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.Proverbs 7:2Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.Song of Solomon 8:5Who [is] this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth [that] bare thee.Nehemiah 9:19-21Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to shew them light, and the way wherein they should go.Deuteronomy 4:36Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.Psalm 147:19-20He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.Romans 2:18And knowest [his] will, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being instructed out of the law;Psalm 107:4-5They wandered in the wilderness in a solitary way; they found no city to dwell in.Romans 3:2Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.
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