Deuteronomy 32:10
10 “He found him cin a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he dencircled him, he cared for him,
he ekept him as the apple of his eye.
Zechariah 2:8
8 For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me1 to the nations who plundered you, yfor he who touches you touches zthe apple of his eye: