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Keep me [in Your affectionate care, protect me] as the [a]apple of Your eye;
Hide me in the [protective] shadow of Your wings

From the wicked who despoil and deal violently with me,
My deadly enemies who surround me.
10 
They have closed their [b]unfeeling heart [to kindness and compassion];
With their mouths they speak proudly and make presumptuous claims.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 17:8 Lit the pupil, the daughter of the eye.
  2. Psalm 17:10 Lit fat.

Keep me(A) as the apple of your eye;(B)
    hide me(C) in the shadow of your wings(D)
from the wicked who are out to destroy me,
    from my mortal enemies who surround me.(E)

10 They close up their callous hearts,(F)
    and their mouths speak with arrogance.(G)

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