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Show how wonderful is your kindness,[a]
    you who save those who seek protection
    by taking refuge at your right hand.
Guard me as the apple of your eye;
    hide me in the shadow of your wings[b]
from the wicked who treat me with violence,
    from deadly enemies who surround me.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 17:7 Kindness: see note on Ps 6:5.
  2. Psalm 17:8 Apple of your eye . . . shadow of your wings: conventional Hebrew metaphors for protection (see Deut 32:10; Prov 7:2; Isa 49:2).