Psalms 17:8

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

Hide me in the shadow of your wings!

Psalms 94:9

94:9 Does the one who makes the human ear not hear?

Does the one who forms the human eye not see?


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.

sn Your wings. The metaphor compares God to a protective mother bird.

tn Heb “The one who plants an ear, does he not hear? The one who forms an eye, does he not see?”