Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Parallel translations
- WEB nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.
- BSB nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.
- 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 thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
- Num 16:48And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.
- Matt 24:6–7And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
- Exod 12:29–30And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
- 2 Kgs 19:35And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
- 1 Cor 10:3–10And did all eat the same spiritual meat;
- 2 Sam 24:15So the LORD sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beersheba seventy thousand men.
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