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.
Parallel translations
- 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.
- 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.
- NKJV “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 apple of His eye.
- NASB “He found him in a desert land, And in the howling wasteland of a wilderness; He encircled him, He cared for him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
- NLT He found them in a desert land, in an empty, howling wasteland. He surrounded them and watched over them; he guarded them as he would guard his own eyes.
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- Zech 2:8For Yahweh of Armies says: ‘For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.
- Hos 13:5I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
- Ps 17:8Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,
- Deut 8:15–16who led you through the great and terrible wilderness, with venomous snakes and scorpions, and thirsty ground where there was no water; who poured water for you out of the rock of flint;
- Jer 2:6They didn’t say, ‘Where is Yahweh who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, who 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 one passed through, and where no man lived?’
- Ps 32:7–10You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- Neh 9:19–21yet you in your manifold mercies didn’t forsake them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud didn’t depart from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither did the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way in which they should go.
- Prov 7:2Keep my commandments and live! Guard my teaching as the apple of your eye.
- Song 8:5Who is this who comes up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I aroused you. There your mother conceived you. There she was in labor and bore you.
- Deut 4:36Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire; and you heard his words out of the middle of the fire.
- Rom 2:18and know his will, and approve the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
- Ps 147:19–20He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.
- Rom 3:2Much in every way! Because first of all, they were entrusted with the revelations of God.
- Ps 107:4–5They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way. They found no city to live in.
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