Psalms 17:8

17:8 Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! ¹ 

Hide me in the shadow of your wings! ² 

Psalms 61:4

61:4 I will be a permanent guest in your home; ³ 

I will find shelter in the protection of your wings. ⁴  (Selah)

Psalms 63:7

63:7 For you are my deliverer; ⁵ 

under your wings ⁶  I rejoice.

Psalms 36:7

36:7 How precious ⁷  is your loyal love, O God!

The human race finds shelter under your wings. ⁸ 

Psalms 57:1

Psalm 57 ⁹ 

For the music director; according to the al-tashcheth style; ¹⁰  a prayer ¹¹  of David, written when he fled from Saul into the cave. ¹² 

57:1 Have mercy on me, O God! Have mercy on me!

For in you I have taken shelter. ¹³ 

In the shadow of your wings ¹⁴  I take shelter

until trouble passes.

[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.

[17:8]  ² sn Your wings. The metaphor compares God to a protective mother bird.

[61:4]  ³ tn Heb “I will live as a resident alien in your tent permanently.” The cohortative is understood here as indicating resolve. Another option is to take it as expressing a request, “please let me live” (cf. NASB, NRSV).

[61:4]  ⁴ sn I will find shelter in the protection of your wings. The metaphor compares God to a protective mother bird.

[63:7]  ⁵ tn Or “[source of] help.”

[63:7]  ⁶ tn Heb “in the shadow of your wings.”

[36:7]  ⁷ tn Or “valuable.”

[36:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “and the sons of man in the shadow of your wings find shelter.” The preservation of physical life is in view, as the next verse makes clear.

[57:1]  ⁹ sn Psalm 57. The psalmist asks for God’s protection and expresses his confidence that his ferocious enemies will be destroyed by their own schemes.

[57:1]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “do not destroy.” Perhaps this refers to a particular style of music, a tune title, or a musical instrument. These words also appear in the heading to Pss 58-59, 75.

[57:1]  ¹¹ tn The precise meaning of the Hebrew word מִכְתָּם (miktam), which also appears in the heading to Pss 16, 56, 58-60 is uncertain. HALOT 582-83 s.v. defines it as “inscription.”

[57:1]  ¹² sn According to the superscription, David wrote this psalm on the occasion when he fled from Saul and hid in “the cave.” This probably refers to either the incident recorded in 1 Sam 22:1 or to the one recorded in 1 Sam 24:3.

[57:1]  ¹³ tn Heb “my life has taken shelter.” The Hebrew perfect verbal form probably refers here to a completed action with continuing results.

[57:1]  ¹⁴ sn In the shadow of your wings. The metaphor likens God to a protective mother bird (see also Pss 17:8; 36:7).