Keep my commands ¹  so that you may live, ²  and obey ³  my instruction as your most prized possession. ⁴ 

in the twilight, the evening, ¹  in the dark of the night. ² 

Protect me as you would protect the pupil of your eye! ¹  Hide me in the shadow of your wings! ² 

The one who curses ¹  his father and his mother, his lamp ²  will be extinguished in the blackest ³  darkness.

The Lord ¹  found him ²  in a desolate land, in an empty wasteland where animals howl. ³  He continually guarded him ⁴  and taught him; ⁵  he continually protected him ⁶  like the pupil ⁷  of his eye.