Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, in a place of horror, and of vast wilderness: he led him about, and taught him: and he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
9But the Lord's portion is his people: Jacob the lot of his inheritance.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:36From heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might teach thee. And upon earth he shewed thee his exceeding great fire, and thou didst hear his words out of the midst of the fire,
Nehemiah 9:19Yet thou, in thy many mercies, didst not leave them in the desert: the pillar of the cloud departed not from them by day to lead them in the way, and the pillar of fire by night to shew them the way by which they should go.
Psalms 17:8From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings.
Psalms 107:4They wandered in a wilderness, in a place without water: they found not the way of a city for their habitation.
Proverbs 7:2Keep my commandments, and thou shalt live: and my law as the apple of thy eye:
Jeremiah 2:6And they have not said: Where is the Lord, that made us come up out of the land of Egypt? that led us through the desert, through a land uninhabited and unpassable, through a land of drought, and the image of death, through a land wherein no man walked, nor any man dwelt?
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 32:8-15
7 Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will show thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee. 8 When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. 9 For the Lord 's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. 10 He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept… Read the whole commentary →