He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.

Deuteronomy 1:19
And just as the LORD our God had commanded us, we set out from Horeb and went toward the hill country of the Amorites, through all the vast and terrifying wilderness you have seen. When we reached Kadesh-barnea,

Deuteronomy 1:31
and in the wilderness, where the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way by which you traveled until you reached this place."

Psalm 17:8
Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

Psalm 107:4
Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.

Psalm 107:40
He pours out contempt on the nobles and makes them wander in a trackless wasteland.

Proverbs 7:2
Keep my commandments and live; guard my teachings as the apple of your eye.

Isaiah 63:9
In all their distress, He too was afflicted, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. In His love and compassion He redeemed them; He lifted them up and carried them all the days of old.

Jeremiah 2:6
They did not ask, 'Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?'

Jeremiah 2:17
Have you not brought this on yourself by forsaking the LORD your God when He led you in the way?

Jeremiah 13:11
For just as a loincloth clings to a man's waist, so I have made the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah cling to Me, declares the LORD, so that they might be My people for My renown and praise and glory. But they did not listen.

Ezekiel 16:5
No one cared enough for you to do even one of these things out of compassion for you. Instead, you were thrown out into the open field, because you were despised on the day of your birth.

Ezekiel 20:36
Just as I entered into judgment with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so I will enter into judgment with you, declares the Lord GOD.

Hosea 11:3
It was I who taught Ephraim to walk, taking them in My arms, but they never realized that it was I who healed them.

Hosea 13:5
I knew you in the wilderness, in the land of drought.

Zechariah 2:8
For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: "After His Glory has sent Me against the nations that have plundered you--for whoever touches you touches the apple of His eye--

He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.