Don’t plead with me to abandon you
or to return and not follow you.
For wherever you go, I will go,
and wherever you live, I will live;
your people will be my people,
and your God will be my God.

⁸ Protect me as the pupil of your eye;^(A)
hide me in the shadow of your wings^(B)

⁷ How priceless your faithful love is, God!
People take refuge in the shadow of your wings.^(A)

¹ Be gracious to me, God, be gracious to me,
for I take refuge in you.
I will seek refuge in the shadow of your wings
until danger passes.^(B)

⁷ because you are my helper;^(A)
I will rejoice in the shadow of your wings.^(B)