⁸ Keep me as the light of your eyes, covering me with the shade of your wings,

¹⁰ He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.

⁸ Said to him, Go quickly and say to this young man, Jerusalem will be an unwalled town, because of the great number of men and cattle in her.

⁴ You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

¹ Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

⁷ Because you have been my help, I will have joy in the shade of your wings.

⁴ I will make your tent my resting-place for ever: I will keep myself under the cover of your wings. (Selah.)

¹ <To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. Michtam. Of David. When he went in flight from Saul, in the hole of the rock.> Have mercy on me, O God, have mercy on me; for the hope of my soul is in you: I will keep myself safely under the shade of your wings, till these troubles are past.

⁷ How good is your loving mercy, O God! the children of men take cover under the shade of your wings.

¹² The Lord give you a reward for what you have done, and may a full reward be given to you by the Lord, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take cover.

³⁴ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!

³⁷ O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

² Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;