Psalm 17:8 Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings

◄ Psalm 17:8 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings

English Standard Version
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,

New American Standard Bible
Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me in the shadow of Your wings

King James Bible
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Protect me as the pupil of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings

International Standard Version
Protect me as the most precious part of the eye; hide me under the shadow of your wings

American Standard Version
Keep me as the apple of the eye; Hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

Douay-Rheims Bible
From them that resist thy right hand keep me, as the apple of thy eye. Protect me under the shadow of thy wings.

Darby Bible Translation
Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,

Young's Literal Translation
Keep me as the apple, the daughter of the eye; In shadow of Thy wings thou dost hide me.

Cross References

Numbers 6:24
The LORD bless you, and keep you:

Deuteronomy 32:10
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Ruth 2:12
The LORD recompense your work, and a full reward be given you of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings you are come to trust.

Psalm 16:1
Preserve me, O God: for in you do I put my trust.

Psalm 27:5
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up on a rock.

Psalm 36:7
How excellent is your loving kindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings.

Psalm 57:1
Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me: for my soul trusts in you: yes, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities be over.

Psalm 61:4
I will abide in your tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of your wings. Selah.

Psalm 63:7
Because you have been my help, therefore in the shadow of your wings will I rejoice.

Psalm 91:1
He that dwells in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

17:8-15 Being compassed with enemies, David prays to God to keep him in safety. This prayer is a prediction that Christ would be preserved, through all the hardships and difficulties of his humiliation, to the glories and joys of his exalted state, and is a pattern to Christians to commit the keeping of their souls to God, trusting him to preserve them to his heavenly kingdom. Those are our worst enemies, that are enemies to our souls. They are God's sword, which cannot move without him, and which he will sheathe when he has done his work with it. They are his hand, by which he chastises his people. There is no fleeing from God's hand, but by fleeing to it. It is very comfortable, when we are in fear of the power of man, to see it dependent upon, and in subjection to the power of God. Most men look on the things of this world as the best things; and they look no further, nor show any care to provide for another life. The things of this world are called treasures, they are so accounted; but to the soul, and when compared with eternal blessings, they are trash. The most afflicted Christian need not envy the most prosperous men of the world, who have their portion in this life. Clothed with Christ's righteousness, having through his grace a good heart and a good life, may we by faith behold God's face, and set him always before us. When we awake every morning, may we be satisfied with his likeness set before us in his word, and with his likeness stamped upon us by his renewing grace. Happiness in the other world is prepared only for those that are justified and sanctified: they shall be put in possession of it when the soul awakes, at death, out of its slumber in the body, and when the body awakes, at the resurrection, out of its slumber in the grave. There is no satisfaction for a soul but in God, and in his good will towards us, and his good work in us; yet that satisfaction will not be perfect till we come to heaven.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

8. Similar figures, denoting the preciousness of God's people in His sight, in De 32:10, 11; Mt 23:37.