Deuteronomy 32:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.

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  • Ps 17:8 : 8 Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?
  • Prov 7:2 : 2 Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;
  • Hos 13:5 : 5 I had knowledge of you in the waste land where no water was.
  • Rom 2:18 : 18 And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Much in every way: first of all because the words of God were given to them.
  • Song 8:5 : 5 Who is this, who comes up from the waste places, resting on her loved one? It was I who made you awake under the apple-tree, where your mother gave you birth; there she was in pain at your birth.
  • Deut 8:15-16 : 15 Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you; 16 Who gave you manna for your food in the waste land, a food which your fathers had never seen; so that your pride might be broken and your hearts tested for your good in the end;
  • Neh 9:19-21 : 19 Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go. 20 And you gave your good spirit to be their teacher, and did not keep back your manna from their mouths, and gave them water when they had need of it. 21 Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.
  • Ps 32:7-9 : 7 You are my safe and secret place; you will keep me from trouble; you will put songs of salvation on the lips of those who are round me. (Selah.) 8 I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide. 9 Do not be like the horse or the ass, without sense; ... 10 The sinner will be full of trouble; but mercy will be round the man who has faith in the Lord.
  • Ps 107:4-5 : 4 They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place. 5 Their souls became feeble for need of food and drink.
  • Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He makes his word clear to Jacob, teaching Israel his laws and his decisions. 20 He has not done these things for any other nation: and as for his laws, they have no knowledge of them. Let the Lord be praised.
  • Deut 4:36 : 36 Out of heaven itself his voice came to you, teaching you; and on earth he let you see his great fire; and his words came to your ears out of the heart of the fire.

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  • Deut 1:30-31
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    30 The Lord your God who goes before you will be fighting for you, and will do such wonders as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;

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    52 But he took his people out like sheep, guiding them in the waste land like a flock.

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    9 For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.

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    8 Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,

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  • Deut 8:15-16
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    8 I will give you knowledge, teaching you the way to go; my eye will be your guide.

  • Acts 13:18
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  • Jer 2:6
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    6 And they never said, Where is the Lord, who took us up out of the land of Egypt; who was our guide through the waste of sand, through an unplanted land full of deep holes, through a dry land of deep shade, which no one went through and where no man was living?

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    4 You have seen what I did to the Egyptians, and how I took you, as on eagles' wings, guiding you to myself.

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    2 And keep in mind the way by which the Lord your God has taken you through the waste land these forty years, so that he might make low your pride and put you to the test, to see what was in your heart and if you would keep his orders or not.

  • Hos 13:5
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    5 I had knowledge of you in the waste land where no water was.

  • Ps 107:4
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    4 They were wandering in the waste places; they saw no way to a resting-place.

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    7 For the blessing of the Lord your God has been on you in all the work of your hands: he has knowledge of your wanderings through this great waste: these forty years the Lord your God has been with you, and you have been short of nothing.

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    14 In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire.

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    54 And he was their guide to his holy land, even to the mountain, which his right hand had made his;

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    15 For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.

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    5 How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your houses, O Israel!

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    12 And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.

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    4 For the Lord has taken Jacob for himself, and Israel for his property.