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[a]Keep me as the apple of your eye;
    hide me in the shadow of your wings

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Footnotes

  1. 17:8 Apple of your eye…shadow of your wings: images of God’s special care, cf. Dt 32:10; Prv 7:2; Is 49:2.

Your justice is like the highest mountains;
    your judgments, like the mighty deep;
    human being and beast you sustain, Lord.

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Psalm 57[a]

Confident Prayer for Deliverance

For the director. Do not destroy.[b] A miktam of David, when he fled from Saul into a cave.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 57 Each of the two equal strophes contains a prayer for rescue from enemies, accompanied by joyful trust in God (Ps 57:2–5, 7–11). The refrain prays that God be manifested as saving (Ps 57:6, 12). Ps 108 is nearly identical to part of this Psalm (cf. Ps 57:8–11, Ps 108:2–6).
  2. 57:1 Do not destroy: probably the title of the melody to which the Psalm was to be sung.

    for you are my refuge,
    a tower of strength against the foe.(A)

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I think of you upon my bed,
    I remember you through the watches of the night

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He will shelter you with his pinions,
    and under his wings you may take refuge;(A)
    his faithfulness is a protecting shield.

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