Keep me as the apple of the eye;
Hide me in the shadow of Your wings

For thus says the Lord of hosts, “After glory He has sent me against the nations which plunder you, for he who touches you, touches the apple of His eye.

Keep my commandments and live,
And my teaching as the apple of your eye.

The vine dries up
And the fig tree fails;
The pomegranate, the palm also, and the apple tree,
All the trees of the field dry up.
Indeed, rejoicing dries up
From the sons of men.

“Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest,
So is my beloved among the young men.
In his shade I took great delight and sat down,
And his fruit was sweet to my taste.

“Who is this coming up from the wilderness
Leaning on her beloved?”
“Beneath the apple tree I awakened you;
There your mother was in labor with you,
There she was in labor and gave you birth.

and Zedekiah king of Judah will not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but he will surely be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will speak with him face to face and see him eye to eye;

You will not escape from his hand, for you will surely be captured and delivered into his hand; and you will see the king of Babylon eye to eye, and he will speak with you face to face, and you will go to Babylon.’”’

“The eye of the adulterer waits for the twilight,
Saying, ‘No eye will see me.’
And he disguises his face.

“Woe to the worthless shepherd
Who leaves the flock!
A sword will be on his arm
And on his right eye!
His arm will be totally withered
And his right eye will be blind.”

and they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have heard that You, O Lord, are in the midst of this people, for You, O Lord, are seen eye to eye, while Your cloud stands over them; and You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.

Thus you shall not show pity: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot.

eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot,

“If a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave, and destroys it, he shall let him go free on account of his eye.

fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth; just as he has injured a man, so it shall be inflicted on him.

“The eye of him who sees me will behold me no longer;
Your eyes will be on me, but I will not be.

Behold, this day your eyes have seen that the Lord had given you today into my hand in the cave, and some said to kill you, but my eye had pity on you; and I said, ‘I will not stretch out my hand against my lord, for he is the Lord’s anointed.’

Like apples of gold in settings of silver
Is a word spoken in right circumstances.

“Sustain me with raisin cakes,
Refresh me with apples,
Because I am lovesick.

“I said, ‘I will climb the palm tree,
I will take hold of its fruit stalks.’
Oh, may your breasts be like clusters of the vine,
And the fragrance of your breath like apples,

He has bent His bow like an enemy;
He has set His right hand like an adversary
And slain all that were pleasant to the eye;
In the tent of the daughter of Zion
He has poured out His wrath like fire.

So as I live,’ declares the Lord God, ‘surely, because you have defiled My sanctuary with all your detestable idols and with all your abominations, therefore I will also withdraw, and My eye will have no pity and I will not spare.

For My eye will have no pity on you, nor will I spare you, but I will bring your ways upon you, and your abominations will be among you; then you will know that I am the Lord!’

My eye will show no pity nor will I spare. I will repay you according to your ways, while your abominations are in your midst; then you will know that I, the Lord, do the smiting.

Therefore, I indeed will deal in wrath. My eye will have no pity nor will I spare; and though they cry in My ears with a loud voice, yet I will not listen to them.”

But to the others He said in my hearing, “Go through the city after him and strike; do not let your eye have pity and do not spare.

But as for Me, My eye will have no pity nor will I spare, but I will bring their conduct upon their heads.”

No eye looked with pity on you to do any of these things for you, to have compassion on you. Rather you were thrown out into the open field, for you were abhorred on the day you were born.

Yet My eye spared them rather than destroying them, and I did not cause their annihilation in the wilderness.

But the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until a report could come to Darius, and then a written reply be returned concerning it.

“Remember that my life is but breath;
My eye will not again see good.

“My friends are my scoffers;
My eye weeps to God.

“Surely mockers are with me,
And my eye gazes on their provocation.

“My eye has also grown dim because of grief,
And all my members are as a shadow.

“The eye which saw him sees him no longer,
And his place no longer beholds him.

‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

“Behold, my eye has seen all this,
My ear has heard and understood it.

“The path no bird of prey knows,
Nor has the falcon’s eye caught sight of it.

“He hews out channels through the rocks,
And his eye sees anything precious.

“For when the ear heard, it called me blessed,
And when the eye saw, it gave witness of me,

“I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;
But now my eye sees You;

My eye has wasted away with grief;
It has become old because of all my adversaries.

Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress;
My eye is wasted away from grief, my soul and my body also.

I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you should go;
I will counsel you with My eye upon you.

Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,
On those who hope for His lovingkindness,

Their eye bulges from fatness;
The imaginations of their heart run riot.

For He has delivered me from all trouble,
And my eye has looked with satisfaction upon my enemies.

My eye has wasted away because of affliction;
I have called upon You every day, O Lord;
I have spread out my hands to You.

And my eye has looked exultantly upon my foes,
My ears hear of the evildoers who rise up against me.

He who planted the ear, does He not hear?
He who formed the eye, does He not see?