He found him in a desert land, in the waste howling wilderness. He surrounded him. He cared for him. He kept him as the apple of his eye.

Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,

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

For thus says the LORD of hosts: 'For honor he has sent me to the nations which plundered you; for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye.