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Keep me [in Your affectionate care, protect me] as the ^[a]apple of Your eye;
Hide me in the [protective] shadow of Your wings

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For You have been my help,
And in the shadow of Your wings [where I am always protected] I sing for joy.
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My ^[a]soul [my life, my very self] clings to You;
Your right hand upholds me.