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Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye.[a]
Hide me in the shadow of your wings.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 17:8 tc Heb “Protect me like the pupil, a daughter of an eye.” The noun בַּת (bat, “daughter”) should probably be emended to בָּבַת (bavat, “pupil”). See Zech 2:12 HT (2:8 ET) and HALOT 107 s.v. *בָּבָה.
  2. Psalm 17:8 sn Your wings. The metaphor compares God to a protective mother bird.