Psalm 91:7

7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

Psalm 91:7 in Other Translations

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

7 Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you.

7 Even though others succumb all around, drop like flies right and left, no harm will even graze you.

7 A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; [But] it shall not come nigh thee.

7 They will not come near you, even though a thousand may fall dead beside you or ten thousand at your right side.

7 Though a thousand fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, the pestilence will not reach you.

7 A thousand may fall dead at your side. Ten thousand may fall near your right hand. But no harm will come to you.

Psalm 91:7 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 91:7

A thousand shall fall at thy side
The left side, as the Targum; so the Arabic version, and Jarchi and Kimchi; which sense the opposition and distinction in the next clause direct unto: this is not to be understood of falling in battle, as some interpret it, but by the pestilence before spoken of:

and ten thousand at thy right hand;
which shows both the great devastation made by the plague where it comes, and the special care and providence of God in preserving his people from it; of which David had an experience, when vast numbers of his people were destroyed by it on the right and left:

but it shall not come nigh thee;
it may come near the place where good men are, or else it could not be said that a thousand should fall on their side, and ten thousand at their right hand: the plague that killed the firstborn in Egypt was near the dwellings of the Israelites, though it entered not into them; and that in David's time was near him, though he was not infected with it: but the meaning is, that it should not come so near such as to seize their bodies and they fall by the distemper; there being a particular providence oftentimes concerned for their safety, which guards them from it; see ( Ezekiel 9:4 ) , not but that good men may fall in a common calamity, and by an epidemical distemper; but then it is for their good, and not their hurt; they are taken away from the evil to come, and are delivered from a worse plague than that by which they fall, the plague of their own hearts, the evil of sin; and so the Targum adds, "shall not come near to hurt", though it understands it of devils.

Psalm 91:7 In-Context

5 You will not fear the terror of night, nor the arrow that flies by day,

6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.

7 A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

8 You will only observe with your eyes and see the punishment of the wicked.

9 If you say, “The LORD is my refuge,” and you make the Most High your dwelling,