Psalms 17:8

"Show your marvelous loving kindness, you who save those who take refuge by your right hand from their enemies."

Key Reflection

This verse portrays God as a protector and savior, extending His remarkable grace to those who seek refuge in Him, particularly highlighting His power to deliver from adversities. It underscores the intimate relationship between God's lovingkindness and His protective role in times of conflict or danger.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Keep me as the apple of the eye -Preserve me; guard me; defend me, as one defends that which is to him most precious and valuable. In the original there is a remarkable strength of expression, and at the same time a remarkable confusion of gender in the language. The literal translation would be, “Keep me as the little man - the daughter of the eye.” The word “apple” applied to the eye means the pupil, the little aperture in the middle of the eye, through which the rays of light pass to form an image on the retina (“Johnson, Webster”); though “why” it is called the “apple” of the eye the lexicographers fail to tell us.

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