Deuteronomy 32:10
8 When the Most High gave the nations their inheritance, when He divided the sons of man, He set the boundaries of the peoples according to the number of the sons of God.
9 But the LORD’s portion is His people, Jacob His allotted inheritance.
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.
11 As an eagle stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, He spread His wings to catch them and carried them on His pinions.
12 The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- 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.
- KJV
- 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.
- WEB
- 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
- 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.
- DARBY
- He found him in a desert land, And in the waste, howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he watched over him, He preserved him as the apple of his eye.
- BLB
- He found him in a desert land, and in the wasteland, a howling wilderness; He encircled him, He instructed him, He kept him as the pupil of His eye.
- ÅB
- Han fant ham i et øde land, i villmarken, blant ørkenens hyl; han vernet om ham, han våket over ham, han voktet ham som sin øyesten.
- OTB
- Han fant ham i et ørkenland, i den hylende ødemarken; han omkranset ham, han tok seg av ham, han voktet ham som sin øyesten.
- B1930
- Han fant ham i et øde land, i villmarken, blandt ørkenens hyl; han vernet om ham, han våket over ham, han voktet ham som sin øiesten.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 17:8
Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
Read in contextZechariah 2:8
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you—for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye—
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:15–16
He led you through the vast and terrifying wilderness with its venomous snakes and scorpions, a thirsty and waterless land. He brought you water from the rock of flint.
Read in contextHosea 13:5
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:6
They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
Read in contextSong of Solomon 8:5
Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
Read in contextPsalms 32:7–10
You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
Read in contextNehemiah 9:19–21
You in Your great compassion did not forsake them in the wilderness. By day the pillar of cloud never turned away from guiding them on their path; and by the night the pillar of fire illuminated the way they should go.
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