Deu 32:10, 1Sa 12:21, Job 12:24, Psa 107:40, Isa 34:11, 44:9, Jer 4:23 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

a ch. 8:15; Jer. 2:6; Hos. 13:5

b Ps. 32:10

c Ps. 17:8; Prov. 7:2; Zech. 2:8

d[See ver. 20 above]

e Jer. 16:19; Hab. 2:18; [1 Cor. 8:4]

f Ps. 107:40; [ch. 6:18]

g Job 12:21

h Job 12:24

i[Deut. 32:10]

j ch. 14:23; Zeph. 2:14; [Rev. 18:2]

l 2 Kgs. 21:13; Lam. 2:8; See Amos 7:7-9

Deuteronomy 32:10

10 “He found him ^ain a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he ^bencircled him, he cared for him,
he ^ckept him as the apple of his eye.

1 Samuel 12:21

21 And ^ddo not turn aside after ^eempty things that cannot profit or deliver, for they are empty.

Job 12:24

24 He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth
and ^fmakes them wander in a trackless waste.

Psalms 107:40

40 ^ghe pours contempt on princes
and ^hmakes them wander ⁱin trackless wastes;

Isaiah 34:11

11 ^jBut the hawk and the porcupine ^{▼▼The identity of the animals rendered hawk and porcupine is uncertain} shall possess it,
the owl and the raven shall dwell in it.
^lHe shall stretch the line of ^mconfusion ^{▼▼Hebrew formlessness} over it,
and the plumb line of emptiness.

Isaiah 44:9

The Folly of Idolatry

9 ^oAll who fashion idols are nothing, and the things they delight in do not profit. Their witnesses neither see nor know, that they may be put to shame.

Jeremiah 4:23

23 I looked on the earth, and behold, it was ^pwithout form and void;
^qand to the heavens, and they had no light.