He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:

Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in obscure darkness.