Deuteronomy 32:10

American Standard Version (1901)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 17:8 : 8 Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: After glory hath he sent me unto the nations which plundered you; for he that toucheth you toucheth the apple of his eye.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 Neither said they, Where is Jehovah 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 none passed through, and where no man dwelt?
  • Prov 7:2 : 2 Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.
  • Hos 13:5 : 5 I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.
  • Rom 2:18 : 18 and knowest his will, and approvest the things that are excellent, being instructed out of the law,
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much every way: first of all, that they were intrusted with the oracles of God.
  • Song 8:5 : 5 Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, Leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple-tree I awakened thee: There thy mother was in travail with thee, There was she in travail that brought thee forth.
  • Deut 8:15-16 : 15 who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, [wherein were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint; 16 who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:
  • Neh 9:19-21 : 19 yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go. 20 Thou gavest also thy good Spirit to instruct them, and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest them water for their thirst. 21 Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, [and] they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.
  • Ps 32:7-9 : 7 Thou art my hiding-place; Thou wilt preserve me from trouble; Thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. {{Selah 8 I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee. 9 Be ye not as the horse, or as the mule, which have no understanding; Whose trappings must be bit and bridle to hold them in, [Else] they will not come near unto thee. 10 Many sorrows shall be to the wicked; But he that trusteth in Jehovah, lovingkindness shall compass him about.
  • Ps 107:4-5 : 4 They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation. 5 Hungry and thirsty, Their soul fainted in them.
  • Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He showeth his word unto Jacob, His statutes and his ordinances unto Israel. 20 He hath not dealt so with any nation; And as for his ordinances, they have not known them. Praise ye Jehovah.
  • Deut 4:36 : 36 Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he made thee to see his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 77%

    11As an eagle that stirreth up her nest, That fluttereth over her young, He spread abroad his wings, he took them, He bare them on his pinions.

    12Jehovah alone did lead him, And there was no foreign god with him.

    13He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he did eat the increase of the field; And he made him to suck honey out of the rock, And oil out of the flinty rock;

  • Deut 1:30-31
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    30Jehovah your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

    31and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came unto this place.

  • Ps 78:71-72
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    71From following the ewes that have their young he brought him, To be the shepherd of Jacob his people, and Israel his inheritance.

    72So he was their shepherd according to the integrity of his heart, And guided them by the skilfulness of his hands.

  • 52But he led forth his own people like sheep, And guided them in the wilderness like a flock.

  • 9For Jehovah's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

  • 10Hear the word of Jehovah, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar off; and say, He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock.

  • 8Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

  • 31And he said, Leave us not, I pray thee; forasmuch as thou knowest how we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou shalt be to us instead of eyes.

  • 33who went before you in the way, to seek you out a place to pitch your tents in, in fire by night, to show you by what way ye should go, and in the cloud by day.

  • Deut 8:15-16
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    15who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, [wherein were] fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

    16who fed thee in the wilderness with manna, which thy fathers knew not; that he might humble thee, and that he might prove thee, to do thee good at thy latter end:

  • 8I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will counsel thee with mine eye upon thee.

  • 18And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.

  • 6Neither said they, Where is Jehovah 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 none passed through, and where no man dwelt?

  • 4Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I bare you on eagles' wings, and brought you unto myself.

  • 2And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.

  • 5I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.

  • 4They wandered in the wilderness in a desert way; They found no city of habitation.

  • 1When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

  • 7For Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hand; he hath known thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years Jehovah thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

  • 15And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

  • 20But Jehovah hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as at this day.

  • Mic 7:14-15
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    14Feed thy people with thy rod, the flock of thy heritage, which dwell solitarily, in the forest in the midst of Carmel: let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old.

    15As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I show unto them marvellous things.

  • 2Thus saith Jehovah, The people that were left of the sword found favor in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went to cause him to rest.

  • Deut 4:36-37
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    36Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he made thee to see his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

    37And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out with his presence, with his great power, out of Egypt;

  • 14In the day-time also he led them with a cloud, And all the night with a light of fire.

  • 21And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts; he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them; he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

  • 10Also I brought you up out of the land of Egypt, and led you forty years in the wilderness, to possess the land of the Amorite.

  • 10I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at its first season: but they came to Baal-peor, and consecrated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became abominable like that which they loved.

  • 34Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

  • Ps 78:54-55
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    54And he brought them to the border of his sanctuary, To this mountain, which his right hand had gotten.

    55He drove out the nations also before them, And allotted them for an inheritance by line, And made the tribes of Israel to dwell in their tents.

  • 15For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye will destroy all this people.

  • 5and what he did unto you in the wilderness, until ye came unto this place;

  • 6Do ye thus requite Jehovah, O foolish people and unwise? Is not he thy father that hath bought thee? He hath made thee, and established thee.

  • 11He will feed his flock like a shepherd, he will gather the lambs in his arm, and carry them in his bosom, [and] will gently lead those that have their young.

  • 8If Jehovah delight in us, then he will bring us into this land, and give it unto us; a land which floweth with milk and honey.

  • 5How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, Thy tabernacles, O Israel!

  • 12As a shepherd seeketh out his flock in the day that he is among his sheep that are scattered abroad, so will I seek out my sheep; and I will deliver them out of all places whither they have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day.

  • 12Moreover in a pillar of cloud thou leddest them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

  • 21Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, [and] they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

  • 19yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the wilderness: the pillar of cloud departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should go.

  • 4For Jehovah hath chosen Jacob unto himself, [And] Israel for his own possession.