Under the Shadow of Your Wings

Keep me as the apple of your eye;

hide me in the shadow of your wings

– Psalm 17:8

How priceless is your unfailing love, O God!

People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.

– Psalm 36:7

Have mercy on me, my God,

have mercy on me,

for in you I take refuge.

I will take refuge in the shadow of your wings

until the disaster has passed.

– Psalm 57:1

I long to dwell in your tent forever

– and take refuge in the shelter of your wings.

Psalm 61:4

Because you are my help,

I sing in the shadow of your wings.

– Psalm 63:7

He will cover you with his feathers,

and under his wings you will find refuge;

his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

– Psalm 91:4

And Jesus, as he lamented over Jerusalem said,

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, …

how often I have longed

to gather your children together,

as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings ...”

– Luke 13:34

But even as David prayed for refuge under "God's wings,"

in his brokenness he longed to have the wings of a dove,

that he might flee from all that was afflicting him.

I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove!

I would fly away and be at rest."

– Psalm 55:6