nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.
Parallel translations
- WEB nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
- KJV Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
- NKJV Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.
- NASB Of the plague that stalks in darkness, Or of the destruction that devastates at noon.
- NLT Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday.
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Quick answer
No threat, whether unseen pestilence or midday destruction, need terrify the one who trusts God.
Overview
Continuing verse 5, dangers that strike in darkness or at high noon are placed under God's protective care. The poetry covers every hour and every kind of peril. Believers read this in light of all Scripture, trusting God's sovereign protection while awaiting final deliverance in Christ from every evil.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Ps 121:5–6The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.
- Num 16:48He stood between the living and the dead, and the plague was halted.
- Matt 24:6–7You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. These things must happen, but the end is still to come.
- Exod 12:29–30Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.
- 2 Kgs 19:35And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
- 1 Cor 10:3–10They all ate the same spiritual food
- 2 Sam 24:15So the LORD sent a plague upon Israel from that morning until the appointed time, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beersheba died.
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