Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you.
Parallel translations
- WEB A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.
- KJV A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
- BSB Though a thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, no harm will come near you.
- NKJV A thousand may fall at your side, And ten thousand at your right hand; But it shall not come near you.
- NASB A thousand may fall at your side And ten thousand at your right hand, But it shall not approach you.
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Quick answer
Even amid widespread calamity, God preserves the one who shelters in Him.
Overview
Though thousands fall on every side, the trusting believer is kept safe. The verse vividly assures God's particular care for His own amid general disaster. This is not a blanket promise of bodily immunity, but a confidence that nothing separates the believer from God's keeping, ultimately secured in Christ (Rom. 8:35-39).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Exod 12:12–13For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.
- Gen 7:23Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, livestock, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ship.
- Ps 32:6For this, let everyone who is godly pray to you in a time when you may be found. Surely when the great waters overflow, they shall not reach to him.
- Num 14:37–38even those men who brought up an evil report of the land, died by the plague before Yahweh.
- Josh 14:10“Now, behold, Yahweh has kept me alive, as he spoke, these forty-five years, from the time that Yahweh spoke this word to Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness. Now, behold, I am eighty-five years old, today.
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