Holy Scripture
Psalms 17:9
A church father on this verse
“"Keep Me, O Lord, as the apple of Thine eye": which seems very little and minute: yet by it is the sight of the eye directed, whereby the light is distinguished from the darkness; as by Christ's humanity, the divinity of the Judgment distinguishing between the righteous and sinners. "In the covering of Thy wings prote…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
9There went up a smoke in his wrath, And fire burst into a flame at his presence: Coals were kindled at it.
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7And when I was afflicted I called upon the Lord, And cried to my God: He heard my voice out of his holy temple, And my cry shall enter before him, even into his ears.
8Then the earth shook and quaked, And the foundations of the mountains were disturbed, And were shaken, because God was angry with them.
— Psalms 17:9 —
10And he bowed the heaven, and came down: And thick darkness was under his feet.
11And he mounted on cherubs and flew: He flew on the wings of winds.