He found him in a desert land, and in a howling, desert wasteland; he {encircled him}, he cared for him, he protected him like the {apple} of his eye.

For thus said Yahweh of hosts, after glory he sent me against the nations plundering you: Truly, the one touching you [is] touching the apple of his eye.

Keep me as {the apple of your eye}. Hide me in the shadow of your wings

Keep my commands and live, and my teaching like [the] {apple of your eye}.

The vine withers and the fig tree droops. The pomegranate tree, and also the palm tree, the apple tree --all the trees of the field--are dried up. Indeed, joy is dried up among the sons of men.

As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so [is] my beloved among the young men. In his shade {I sat down with delight}, and his fruit [was] sweet to my palate.

Who [is] this coming up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you; there your mother {conceived you}; there she who was in labor gave birth to you.

" 'And if a man strikes the eye of his male slave or the eye of his female slave and destroys it, he shall release him as free in place of his eye.

"Woe, my worthless shepherd who deserts the flock! [May] a sword [fall] on his arm and on {his right eye}! May his arm wither completely and {his right eye} be utterly blinded!"

eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth, hand in place of hand, foot in place of foot,

fracture in place of fracture, eye in place of eye, tooth in place of tooth--{according to} [the] physical defect he {causes} to the person, likewise it shall be {caused} to him.

and they will {tell it} to the inhabitants of this land. They heard that you, Yahweh, [are] in the midst of this people, that you are seen eye to eye, and your cloud [is] standing over them, and in a column of cloud you go before them by day and in a column of fire [at] night.

{You must show no pity}: life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot."

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

And you will not escape from his hand, but surely you will be captured, and into his hand you will be given, and {you will see the king of Babylon eye to eye}, and {you will speak face to face with him}, and [to] Babylon you will go.'

And [the] eye of [the] adulterer waits for dusk, saying, {'No eye will see me,'} and he places a covering [on his] face.

When Jehu came to Jezreel, Jezebel heard [of it], so she painted her eyes with black eye paint and adorned her head and looked through the window.

And you, devastated one, what [do] you do, that you put on crimson, that you adorn yourself [with] ornaments of gold, that you make your eyes look bigger with the eye make-up? In vain you beautify yourself. [Your] lovers reject you; they seek your life.

The eye of [the one] seeing me will not see me; your eyes [are] upon me, but {I will be gone}.

Apples of gold in a setting of silver is a matter spoken at its proper time.

Sustain me with the raisins, refresh me with the apples, {for I [am] lovesick}.

I say, "I will climb up the palm tree; I will lay hold of its fruit clusters." Let your breasts [be pleasing] like clusters of the vine and the scent of your breath like the apples.

And since ancient [times] they have not heard, have not listened, no eye has seen a God except you; he {acts} for the one who waits for him.

An oracle. The word of Yahweh [is] against the land of Hadrach, and Damascus [is] its resting place. For to Yahweh belongs the eye of humankind, and all the tribes of Israel,

or a hunchback or a dwarf, or a spot in his eye or a skin disorder or a skin eruption or a crushed testicle.

And he {uttered} his oracle and said, "The declaration of Balaam son of Beor, and the declaration of the man whose eye is closed,

you must not give in to him, and you shall not listen to him, and your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall not have compassion, and you shall not cover [up] for him.

Your eye shall not take pity on him, and you shall purge the guilt of innocent blood from Israel, {so that good will be directed toward you}.

then you shall cut off her hand; your eye shall not take pity.

And the eye of their God was on the elders of the Jews, and they did not stop them until the report came to Darius, and then [answer] was received.

But Nahash the Ammonite said to them, "On this [condition] {I will make a treaty} with you, by gouging out the right eye of each of you, so that I can make it a disgrace for all Israel."

Remember that my life [is] a breath; my eye will not return to see good.

He has bent his bow like an enemy; he has set his right hand like a foe, and he has slain all [the] treasures of [the] eye; in the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his anger like fire.

[The] eye [that] saw him {will not see him again}, and his place will no longer behold him.

Perhaps Yahweh will look {in my eye} and repay good for me in place of his curse this day.

So why did you bring me forth from the womb? I should have passed away, {and no eye should have seen me}.

"Look, my eye has seen everything; my ear has heard and has understood it.

My friends scorn me; my eye pours out tears to God,

{Surely} mockery [is] with me, and my eye {rests} on their provocation.

And my eye has grown dim from grief, and the limbs of my body [are] all like a shadow.

Therefore {as surely as I live}, {declares} the Lord Yahweh, {Surely} because you have defiled my sanctuary with all of your vile idols and with all of your detestable things, {now indeed I} will reduce, and my eye will not take pity, and surely I will show no compassion.

And my eye will not take pity on you, and I will not show compassion for your ways; on you I will bring your detestable things; they will be in the midst of you, and you will know that I [am] Yahweh.'

And my eye will not take pity, and I will not show compassion. According to your ways I will {deal with you}, and your detestable things will be in the midst of you, and you will know that I [am] Yahweh [who] strikes.

And so I will act in rage, and my eye will not take pity, and I will not have compassion, and they will cry in my ear [with] a loud voice, and I will not hear them."

And I, my eye will not take pity, and I will not have compassion; their way I will bring on their head."

"[It is] a path a bird of prey does not know and [the] black kite's eye has not seen.

He cuts out tunnels in the rocks, and his eye sees every treasure.

"When [the] ear heard and commended me, and [the] eye saw and testified in support of me

And the prince who [is] in the midst of them, on [his] shoulder he will carry [the baggage] in the dusk, and he will go out; {the wall will be dug through} to bring him through it; and he will cover his face so that he will not see the land with his eye.

{No eye took pity on you} to do to you one of these [things] to show compassion for you, and you were thrown {into the open field} in [their] despising of you {on the day you were born}.

By the ear's hearing I heard [of] you, but now my eye has seen you.

My eye wastes away because of vexation; it grows old because of all my oppressors.

But my eye took pity on them by not destroying them, and {I did not completely destroy them} in the desert.

Be gracious [to] me, O Yahweh, because I have distress. My eye wastes away because of vexation, [along with] my soul and my {body}.

I will instruct you and teach you in [the] way that you should go. I will advise [you] [with] my eye upon you.

Behold, the eye of Yahweh [is] on those who fear him, on those who hope for his loyal love

Let not those who [are] wrongfully my enemies rejoice over me. [Nor let] those who hate me without cause wink [the] eye.

Because he has delivered me from all trouble, and my eye has looked [with satisfaction] on my enemies.

Their eye bulges from fat. Imaginings overflow [their] heart.

My eye languishes from misery. I call on you, O Yahweh, every day; I spread out my hands to you.

And [so] my eye looks on my enemies. My ears hear those evildoers who rise up against me.

Will [the] one who planted [the] ear not hear? Will [the] one who formed [the] eye not see?

Winking in his eye, shuffling in his foot, pointing in his fingers,

The winking of an eye causes trouble, and the foolishness of lips comes to ruin.

The ear that hears and the eye that sees, Yahweh has made {them both}.

He who hurries for wealth is {a man with an evil eye}, but he does not know that poverty will come upon him.

The eye [that] mocks a father and scorns the obedience of a mother-- the ravens of the valley will peck it out, and the offspring of vultures will eat it.

All things toil continuously; no one can ever finish describing this. The eye is never satisfied with seeing, and the ear is never filled with hearing.

Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!