Deuteronomy 32:10
He met him in a desert land, And in the howling waste of a wilderness,—He encompassed him watched over him, Shielded him as the pupil of his own eye.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
In Context
9For, Yahweh’s portion is his people,—Jacob, his inherited possession.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 4:36Out of the heavens, he let thee hear his voice to instruct thee,—and, upon the earth, he let thee see his great fire, and his own words, thou didst hear out of the midst of the fire.
Nehemiah 9:19yet, thou, in thine abounding compassions, didst not forsake them in the desert,—the pillar of cloud, departed not from over them by day, to lead them in the way, nor the pillar of fire by night, to light up for them the way wherein they should go.
Psalms 17:8Guard me, as the pupil of the eye,—Under the shadow of thy wings, wilt thou hide me:
Psalms 107:4They wandered about in the desert—in a waste, Way to a city to dwell in, found they none;
Proverbs 7:2Keep my commandments and live, and mine instruction, as the pupil of thine eye;
Jeremiah 2:6Neither said they, Where is Yahweh, Who brought us up out of the land of Egypt,—Who led us Through the desert, Through a land of wastes and clefts, Through a land of parched places and of death-shade, Through a land, Along which no man had passed, And in which no son of earth 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 →