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 63:7

63:7 For you are my deliverer; ³ 

under your wings ⁴  I rejoice.

Psalms 80:10

80:10 The mountains were covered by its shadow,

the highest cedars ⁵  by its branches.

Psalms 102:11

102:11 My days are coming to an end, ⁶ 

and I am withered like grass.

Psalms 121:5

121:5 The Lord is your protector;

the Lord is the shade at your right hand.

[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.

[63:7]  ³ tn Or “[source of] help.”

[63:7]  ⁴ tn Heb “in the shadow of your wings.”

[80:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “cedars of God.” The divine name אֵל (’al, “God”) is here used in an idiomatic manner to indicate the superlative.

[102:11]  ⁷ tn Heb “my days [are] like an extended [or “lengthening”] shadow,” that is, like a late afternoon shadow made by the descending sun that will soon be swallowed up by complete darkness.