Text -- Psalms 17:8 (NET)

17:8 Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! Hide me in the shadow of your wings!

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 17:8

¹ 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 sn Your wings. The metaphor compares God to a protective mother bird.