He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.

He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.

Εν γη ερημω ευρηκεν αυτον, και εν ερημια φρικης και ολολυγμου· περιωδηγησεν αυτον, επαιδαγωγησεν αυτον, εφυλαξεν αυτον ως κορην οφθαλμου αυτου.

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.