Deuteronomy 32:10

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

“He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Cross References

Esther 6:13

And Haman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, “If Mordecai, before whom you have begun to fall, is of the Jewish people, you will not prevail against him but will surely fall before him.”

Psalm 107:40

he pours contempt upon princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;

Psalm 17:8

Keep me as the apple of the eye; hide me in the shadow of thy wings,

Proverbs 7:2

keep my commandments and live, keep my teachings as the apple of your eye;

Song of Solomon 8:5

Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in travail with you, there she who bore you was in travail.

Isaiah 63:9

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them; in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; he lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Jeremiah 13:11

For as the waistcloth clings to the loins of a man, so I made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to me, says the Lord, that they might be for me a people, a name, a praise, and a glory, but they would not listen.

Jeremiah 2:17

Have you not brought this upon yourself by forsaking the Lord your God, when he led you in the way?

Jeremiah 2:6

They did not say, ‘Where is the Lord who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and pits, in a land of drought and deep darkness, in a land that none passes through, where no man dwells?’

Ezekiel 16:5

No eye pitied you, to do any of these things to you out of compassion for you; but you were cast out on the open field, for you were abhorred, on the day that you were born.

Ezekiel 20:36

As I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, says the Lord God.

Hosea 11:3

Yet it was I who taught Ephraim to walk, I took them up in my arms; but they did not know that I healed them.

Hosea 13:5

It was I who knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought;

Zechariah 2:12

And the Lord will inherit Judah as his portion in the holy land, and will again choose Jerusalem.”

Zechariah 2:8

For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:

Romans 2:18

and know his will and approve what is excellent, because you are instructed in the law,

Romans 3:2

Much in every way. To begin with, the Jews are entrusted with the oracles of God.

Deuteronomy 1:19

“And we set out from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which you saw, on the way to the hill country of the Amorites, as the Lord our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

Deuteronomy 1:31

and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the Lord your God bore you, as a man bears his son, in all the way that you went until you came to this place.’

Deuteronomy 4:36

Out of heaven he let you hear his voice, that he might discipline you; and on earth he let you see his great fire, and you heard his words out of the midst of the fire.