⁵ Like birds hovering overhead, so the Lord of hosts
    will protect Jerusalem;
he will protect and deliver it;
    he will spare and rescue it.”^(A)

⁴ he will cover you with his pinions,
    and under his wings you will find refuge;
    his faithfulness is a shield and defense.^(A)

¹¹ As an eagle stirs up its nest
    and hovers over its young,
as it spreads its wings, takes them up,
    and bears them aloft on its pinions,^(A)

⁴⁰ The Lord helps them and rescues them;
    he rescues them from the wicked and saves them
    because they take refuge in him.^(A)

¹⁴ My hand has found, like a nest,
    the wealth of the peoples,
and as one gathers eggs that have been forsaken,
    so I have gathered all the earth,
and there was none that moved a wing
    or opened its mouth or chirped.”^(A)

⁵ God is in the midst of the city;^[a] it shall not be moved;
    God will help it when the morning dawns.^(A)