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 78:27

78:27 He rained down meat on them like dust,

birds as numerous as the sand on the seashores. ⁷ 

[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.”

[78:27]  ⁷ tn Heb “and like the sand of the seas winged birds.”