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Bible study · Psalm 17:1-15

Psalm 17: The apple of your eye

Read Psalm 17:1-15 before you meet.

In a few lines

"Your sons have plenty" (17:14) and "I shall be satisfied … with seeing your form" (17:15) are the same Hebrew verb, sava. And the psalmist who says "I have kept myself" (17:4) asks, with the same verb, "Keep me as the apple of your eye" (17:8).

The verse to carry

“Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings,”

Psalm 17:8

To talk about

  1. 1. "Keep me as the apple of your eye. Hide me under the shadow of your wings" (17:8). When you have felt surrounded, what picture of God's care has helped you most, and why?

  2. 2. "You have tried me, and found nothing" (17:3). Is it easier for you to pray about what you've done wrong, or to ask God to look at a time you were in the right? What makes the other kind of prayer hard?

  3. 3. Psalm 17 sets "men of the world, whose portion is in this life" (17:14) beside "I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with seeing your form" (17:15). What do you find yourself looking to, to feel satisfied?

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