Deuteronomy 1:31
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31 as well as in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord, your God, carried you, as one carries his own child, all along your journey until you arrived at this place.”
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Deuteronomy 2:7
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7 Surely, the Lord, your God, has blessed you in all your undertakings; he has been concerned[a] about your journey through this vast wilderness. It is now forty years that the Lord, your God, has been with you, and you have lacked nothing.(A)
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Deuteronomy 8:15
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15 he guided you through the vast and terrible wilderness with its saraph[a] serpents and scorpions, its parched and waterless ground; he brought forth water for you from the flinty rock(A)
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Psalm 17:8
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8 [a]Keep me as the apple of your eye;
hide me in the shadow of your wings
Proverbs 7:2
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2 Keep my commands and live,[a]
and my teaching as the apple of your eye;
Jeremiah 2:2-3
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2 Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear!
I remember the devotion[a] of your youth,
how you loved me as a bride,
Following me in the wilderness,
in a land unsown.(A)
3 Israel was dedicated to the Lord,
the first fruits[b] of his harvest;
All who ate of it were held guilty,
evil befell them—oracle of the Lord.(B)
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Jeremiah 2:6
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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 wastes and ravines,
A land of drought and darkness,
a land which no one crosses,
where no one dwells?”(A)
Hosea 2:15
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15 I will punish her for the days of the Baals,[a]
for whom she burnt incense,
When she decked herself out with her rings and her jewelry,
and went after her lovers—
but me she forgot—oracle of the Lord.(A)
Hosea 13:5-6
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5 I fed you in the wilderness,
in the parched land.
6 When I fed them, they were satisfied;
when satisfied, they became proud,
therefore they forgot me.
Zechariah 2:12
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12 For thus says the Lord of hosts after the Lord’s glory had sent me, concerning the nations that have plundered you: Whoever strikes you strikes me directly in the eye.(A)
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