Deuteronomy 32:10
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.
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.
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 the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
Read in contextZechariah 2:8
For 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.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 8:15–16
Who 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;
Read in contextHosea 13:5
I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
Read in contextJeremiah 2:6
Neither 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?
Read in contextSong of Solomon 8:5
Who 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.
Read in contextPsalms 32:7–10
Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Read in contextNehemiah 9:19–21
Yet 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.
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