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Psalm 17:8

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17:8Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye!16

Hide me in the shadow of your wings!17

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Footnotes

  1. 16 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 (2:8 ) and *בָּבָה.
  2. 17 Your wings. The metaphor compares God to a protective mother bird.

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In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Keep me as the apple of your eye;

hide me in the shadow of your wings,

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Keep me as the apple of your eye;

hide me in the shadow of your wings

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Protect me as the pupil of your eye;

hide me in the shadow of your wings

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

NLTNew Living Translation

Guard me as you would guard your own eyes.

Hide me in the shadow of your wings.

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Keep me as the apple of your eye.

Hide me in the shadow of your wings

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

KJV 1900King James Version

Keep me as the apple of the eye,

Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

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