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[a]Keep me as the apple of your eye;
    hide me in the shadow of your wings

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Footnotes

  1. 17:8 Apple of your eye…shadow of your wings: images of God’s special care, cf. Dt 32:10; Prv 7:2; Is 49:2.

Keep me(A) as the apple of your eye;(B)
    hide me(C) in the shadow of your wings(D)

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

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How precious is your mercy, O God!
    The children of Adam take refuge in the shadow of your wings.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 36:8 The shadow of your wings: metaphor for divine protection. It probably refers to the winged cherubim in the holy of holies in the Temple, cf. 1 Kgs 6:23–28, 32; 2 Chr 3:10–13; Ez 1:4–9.

They feast on the abundance of your house;(A)
    you give them drink from your river(B) of delights.(C)

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They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

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