Mazmur 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 

Mazmur 36:7

36:7 How precious ³  is your loyal love, O God!

The human race finds shelter under your wings. ⁴ 

Mazmur 63:7

63:7 For you are my deliverer; ⁵ 

under your wings ⁶  I rejoice.

[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.

[36:7]  ³ tn Or “valuable.”

[36:7]  ⁴ 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.

[63:7]  ⁵ tn Or “[source of] help.”

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