Psalm 17:8

Bible in Basic English 1965

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

Cross References

Psalm 16:1

Michtam. Of David. Keep me safe, O God: for in you I have put my faith.

Psalm 36:7

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

Psalm 36:8

The delights of your house will be showered on them; you will give them drink from the river of your pleasures.

Psalm 57:1

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.

Psalm 57:2

I will send up my cry to the Most High God; to God who does all things for me.

Psalm 61:4

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

Psalm 61:5

For you, O God, have made answer to my prayers; you have given me the heritage of those who give honour to your name.

Psalm 63:7

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

Psalm 91:1

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

Psalm 91:4

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

Proverbs 7:2

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

Zechariah 2:8

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In the way of glory he has sent me to the nations which have taken your goods: for anyone touching you is touching what is most dear to him.

Matthew 23:37

See, your house is made waste.

Luke 13:34

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!

Deuteronomy 32:10

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.

Ruth 2:12

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.