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Psalms 17:8

Context

17:8 Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! 1 

Hide me in the shadow of your wings! 2 

Psalms 109:23

Context

109:23 I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; 3 

I am shaken off like a locust.

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.

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

3 tn Heb “like a shadow when it is extended I go.” He is like a late afternoon shadow made by the descending sun that will soon be swallowed up by complete darkness. See Ps 102:11.



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