Deuteronomy 32:12

God's presence Guidance and decisions Protection and safety

¹⁰ 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.

The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.

¹³ He made him ride on the heights of the land and fed him the produce of the field. He nourished him with honey from the rock and oil from the flinty crag,

¹⁴ with curds from the herd and milk from the flock, with the fat of lambs, with rams from Bashan, and goats, with the choicest grains of wheat. From the juice of the finest grapes you drank the wine.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

Compare

BSB: The LORD alone led him, and no foreign god was with him.
KJV: So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
WEB: The LORD alone led him. There was no foreign god with him.
ASV: Jehovah alone did lead him, And there was no foreign god with him.
DARBY: So Jehovah alone did lead him, And no strange God [was] with him.
BLB: YHWH alone led him, and no foreign god [was] with him.

ÅB: Det var Herren alene som førte ham, og ingen fremmed gud var med ham.
OTB: ledet Herren ham alene, og det var ingen fremmed gud med ham.
B1930: Det var Herren alene som førte ham, og ingen fremmed gud var med ham.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

Isaiah 46:4
Even to your old age, I will be the same, and I will bear you up when you turn gray. I have made you, and I will carry you; I will sustain you and deliver you.
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Psalms 78:52–53
He led out His people like sheep and guided them like a flock in the wilderness.
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Isaiah 44:7–8
Who then is like Me? Let him say so! Let him declare his case before Me, since I established an ancient people. Let him foretell the things to come, and what is to take place.
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Deuteronomy 1:31
and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place.”
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Isaiah 43:11–12
I, yes I, am the LORD, and there is no Savior but Me.
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Psalms 136:16
He led His people through the wilderness. His loving devotion endures forever.
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Psalms 78:14
He led them with a cloud by day and with a light of fire all night.
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Isaiah 63:9–13
In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.
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