Mazmur 17:7-8

17:7 Accomplish awesome, faithful deeds, ¹ 

you who powerfully deliver those who look to you for protection from their enemies. ² 

17:8 Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! ³ 

Hide me in the shadow of your wings! ⁴ 

Mazmur 36:7

36:7 How precious ⁵  is your loyal love, O God!

The human race finds shelter under your wings. ⁶ 

Mazmur 61:4

61:4 I will be a permanent guest in your home; ⁷ 

I will find shelter in the protection of your wings. ⁸  (Selah)

Mazmur 63:7

63:7 For you are my deliverer; ⁹ 

under your wings ¹⁰  I rejoice.

Mazmur 91:1

Psalm 91 ¹¹ 

91:1 As for you, the one who lives ¹²  in the shelter of the sovereign One, ¹³ 

and resides in the protective shadow ¹⁴  of the mighty king ¹⁵  –

Mazmur 91:4

91:4 He will shelter you ¹⁶  with his wings; ¹⁷ 

you will find safety under his wings.

His faithfulness is like a shield or a protective wall. ¹⁸ 

Mazmur 91:9

91:9 For you have taken refuge in the Lord,

my shelter, the sovereign One. ¹⁹ 

Rut 2:12

2:12 May the Lord reward your efforts! ²⁰  May your acts of kindness be repaid fully ²¹  by the Lord God of Israel, from whom you have sought protection!” ²² 

Lukas 13:34

13:34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, ²³  you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you! ²⁴  How often I have longed ²⁵  to gather your children together as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but ²⁶  you would have none of it! ²⁷ 

[17:7]  ¹ tn Heb “Set apart faithful acts.”

[17:7]  ² tn Heb “[O] one who delivers those who seek shelter from the ones raising themselves up, by your right hand.” The Lord’s “right hand” here symbolizes his power to protect and deliver.

[17:7]  sn Those who look to you for protection from their enemies. “Seeking shelter” in the Lord is an idiom for seeking his protection. Seeking his protection presupposes and even demonstrates the subject’s loyalty to the Lord. In the psalms those who “take shelter” in the Lord are contrasted with the wicked and equated with those who love, fear and serve the Lord (Pss 5:11-12; 31:17-20; 34:21-22).

[17:8]  ³ 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]  ⁴ sn Your wings. The metaphor compares God to a protective mother bird.

[36:7]  ⁵ tn Or “valuable.”

[36:7]  ⁶ 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.

[61:4]  ⁷ 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]  ⁸ sn I will find shelter in the protection of your wings. The metaphor compares God to a protective mother bird.

[63:7]  ⁹ tn Or “[source of] help.”

[63:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “in the shadow of your wings.”

[91:1]  ¹¹ sn Psalm 91. In this psalm an individual (perhaps a priest) addresses one who has sought shelter in the Lord and assures him that God will protect him from danger (vv. 1-13). In vv. 14-16 God himself promises to keep his loyal follower safe.

[91:1]  ¹² tn Heb “[O] one who lives.”

[91:1]  ¹³ tn Traditionally “the Most High.”

[91:1]  ¹⁴ sn The Lord is compared here to a bird who protects its young under the shadow of its wings (see v. 4).

[91:1]  ¹⁵ sn The divine name used here is “Shaddai” (שַׁדַּי, shadday; see also Ps 68:14). Shaddai (or El Shaddai) is the mighty king (sovereign judge) of the world who grants life/blesses and kills/judges. In Genesis he blesses the patriarchs with fertility and promises numerous descendants. Outside Genesis he both blesses/protects and takes away life/happiness.

[91:4]  ¹⁶ tn Heb “put a cover over you” (see Ps 5:11).

[91:4]  ¹⁷ tc The Hebrew text has the singular, but the plural should be read. The final yod (י) of the suffix, which indicates the plural, has dropped off by haplography (note the yod [י] at the beginning of the next word).

[91:4]  ¹⁸ tn Traditionally the Hebrew term סֹחֵרָה (sokherah), which occurs only here in the OT, has been understood to refer to a buckler or small shield (see BDB 695 s.v.). But HALOT 750 s.v., on the basis of evidence from the cognate languages, proposes the meaning “wall.”

[91:9]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “for you, the Lord, my shelter, the Most High, you have made your dwelling place.”

[2:12]  ²⁰ tn Heb “repay your work”; KJV, ASV “recompense thy work.” The prefixed verbal form is understood as a jussive of prayer (note the jussive form in the next clause).

[2:12]  ²¹ tn Heb “may your wages be complete”; NCV “May your wages be paid in full.” The prefixed verbal form is a distinct jussive form, indicating that this is a prayer for blessing.

[2:12]  ²² tn Heb “under whose wings you have sought shelter”; NIV, NLT “have come to take refuge.”

[13:34]  ²³ sn The double use of the city’s name betrays intense emotion.

[13:34]  ²⁴ tn Although the opening address (“Jerusalem, Jerusalem”) is direct (second person), the remainder of this sentence in the Greek text is third person (“who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her”). The following sentences then revert to second person (“your… you”), so to keep all this consistent in English, the third person pronouns in the present verse were translated as second person (“you who kill… sent to you”).

[13:34]  ²⁵ sn How often I have longed to gather your children. Jesus, like a lamenting prophet, speaks for God here, who longed to care tenderly for Israel and protect her.

[13:34]  ²⁶ tn Here καί (kai) has been translated as “but” to indicate the contrast present in this context.

[13:34]  ²⁷ tn Grk “you were not willing.”