Read Psalm 17 here (text coming …) or at Bible Gateway.
The Hebrew paragraph:
17:1-15 {p} David’s prayer for deliverance from his wicked, deadly enemies.
Psalm 17:1-15 Chiastic Structure:
The common phrase ‘apple of the eye’ comes into English from the Hebrew Bible. Its meaning refers to something valued above all other things.
The Hebrew idiom literally means ‘little man of the eye,’ referring to the tiny reflection of yourself that you can see in another’s eye. If you are the apple of someone’s eye, that someone is focusing on you and closely watching all things concerning you.
He found him in a desert land, and in the waste, a howling wilderness; He encompassed him about, He cared for him, He kept him as the apple of His eye. Deu 32:10
Keep me as the apple of Your eye, hide me in the shadow of Your wings. Psa 17:8
Keep My commandments and live, and My Law as the apple of your eye. Pro 7:2
Their heart cried to the Lord: ‘O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; give yourself no respite; do not let the apple of your eye cease.’ Lam 2:18
For thus says YHVH of hosts who sent me after glory to the nations which spoiled you: ‘Surely, he who touches you touches the apple of His eye.’ Zec 2:8
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