Deuteronomy 32:10

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The LORD found him in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. He continually guarded him and taught him; he continually protected him like the pupil of his eye.

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  • Ps 17:8 : 8 Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! Hide me in the shadow of your wings!
  • Zech 2:8 : 8 For the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says to me that for his own glory he has sent me to the nations that plundered you– for anyone who touches you touches the pupil of his eye.
  • Jer 2:6 : 6 They did not ask:‘Where is the LORD who delivered us out of Egypt, who brought us through the wilderness, through a land of valleys and gorges, through a land of desert and deep darkness, through a land in which no one travels, and where no one lives?’
  • Prov 7:2 : 2 Keep my commands so that you may live, and obey my instruction as your most prized possession.
  • Hos 13:5 : 5 I cared for you in the wilderness, in the dry desert where no water was.
  • Rom 2:18 : 18 and know his will and approve the superior things because you receive instruction from the law,
  • Rom 3:2 : 2 Actually, there are many advantages. First of all, the Jews were entrusted with the oracles of God.
  • Song 8:5 : 5 The Awakening of LoveThe Maidens about His Beloved: Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved?The Beloved to Her Lover: Under the apple tree I aroused you; there your mother conceived you, there she who bore you was in labor of childbirth.
  • Deut 8:15-16 : 15 and who brought you through the great, fearful wilderness of venomous serpents and scorpions, an arid place with no water. He made water flow from a flint rock and 16 fed you in the wilderness with manna(which your ancestors had never before known) so that he might by humbling you test you and eventually bring good to you.
  • Neh 9:19-21 : 19 “Due to your great compassion you did not abandon them in the wilderness. The pillar of cloud did not stop guiding them in the path by day, nor did the pillar of fire stop illuminating for them by night the path on which they should travel. 20 You imparted your good Spirit to instruct them. You did not withhold your manna from their mouths; you provided water for their thirst. 21 For forty years you sustained them. Even in the wilderness they never lacked anything. Their clothes did not wear out and their feet did not swell.
  • Ps 32:7-9 : 7 You are my hiding place; you protect me from distress. You surround me with shouts of joy from those celebrating deliverance.(Selah) 8 I will instruct and teach you about how you should live. I will advise you as I look you in the eye. 9 Do not be like an unintelligent horse or mule, which will not obey you unless they are controlled by a bridle and bit. 10 An evil person suffers much pain, but the LORD’s faithfulness overwhelms the one who trusts in him.
  • Ps 107:4-5 : 4 They wandered through the wilderness, in a wasteland; they found no road to a city in which to live. 5 They were hungry and thirsty; they fainted from exhaustion.
  • Ps 147:19-20 : 19 He proclaims his word to Jacob, his statutes and regulations to Israel. 20 He has not done so with any other nation; they are not aware of his regulations. Praise the LORD!
  • Deut 4:36 : 36 From heaven he spoke to you in order to teach you, and on earth he showed you his great fire from which you also heard his words.

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