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Psalm 91:5-7
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 91:5-7
New Catholic Bible
5 You will not fear the terror by night[a]
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
nor the plague[b] that lays waste at midday.
7 Even though a thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
such evils will not afflict you.
Footnotes
- Psalm 91:5 Terror by night: resulting from true or false alerts of enemy attacks; attacks by day were announced by flying arrows.
- Psalm 91:6 Pestilence . . . plague: dreaded mortal diseases that frequently grew into epidemics (see Deut 32:24; Hos 13:14; Hab 3:5). In place of the plague that lays waste at midday, other versions have: “devil at noon” or the “noonday devil” (apparently a mythological expression for a contagious disease presumed to be caused by the noonday sun).
