Psalm 91:6
New International Version
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the plague that destroys at midday.

New Living Translation
Do not dread the disease that stalks in darkness, nor the disaster that strikes at midday.

English Standard Version
nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Berean Standard Bible
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.

King James Bible
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

New King James Version
Nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, Nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday.

New American Standard Bible
Of the plague that stalks in darkness, Or of the destruction that devastates at noon.

NASB 1995
Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.

NASB 1977
Of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, Or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.

Legacy Standard Bible
Of pestilence that moves in darkness, Or of destruction that devastates at noon.

Amplified Bible
Nor of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, Nor of the destruction (sudden death) that lays waste at noon.

Christian Standard Bible
the plague that stalks in darkness, or the pestilence that ravages at noon.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
the plague that stalks in darkness, or the pestilence that ravages at noon.

American Standard Version
For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Or of the account that walks in darkness or of the spirit that devastates at noonday.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
nor of the evil thing that walks in darkness; nor of calamity, and the evil spirit at noon-day.

Contemporary English Version
And you won't fear diseases that strike in the dark or sudden disaster at noon.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh about in the dark: of invasion, or of the noonday devil.

English Revised Version
For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
plagues that roam the dark, epidemics that strike at noon.

Good News Translation
or the plagues that strike in the dark or the evils that kill in daylight.

International Standard Version
plague that strikes in the darkness, or calamity that destroys at noon.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Of the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor of the destruction that wasteth at noonday.

Literal Standard Version
Of pestilence that walks in thick darkness, | Of destruction that destroys at noon,

Majority Standard Bible
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.

New American Bible
Nor the pestilence that roams in darkness, nor the plague that ravages at noon.

NET Bible
the plague that comes in the darkness, or the disease that comes at noon.

New Revised Standard Version
or the pestilence that stalks in darkness, or the destruction that wastes at noonday.

New Heart English Bible
nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Webster's Bible Translation
Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.

World English Bible
nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that wastes at noonday.

Young's Literal Translation
Of pestilence in thick darkness that walketh, Of destruction that destroyeth at noon,

Additional Translations ...
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Context
My Refuge and Fortress
5You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, 6nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon. 7Though a thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, no harm will come near you.…

Cross References
Deuteronomy 32:24
They will be wasted from hunger and ravaged by pestilence and bitter plague; I will send the fangs of wild beasts against them, with the venom of vipers that slither in the dust.

2 Kings 19:35
And 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!

Job 5:21
You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue, and will not fear havoc when it comes.

Job 5:22
You will laugh at destruction and famine, and need not fear the beasts of the earth.

Psalm 91:3
Surely He will deliver you from the snare of the fowler, and from the deadly plague.

Psalm 91:10
no evil will befall you, no plague will approach your tent.


Treasury of Scripture

Nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday.

pestilence

Psalm 121:5,6
The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand…

Exodus 12:29,30
And 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 Kings 19:35
And 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.

destruction

Numbers 16:48
And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

2 Samuel 24:15
So 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.

Matthew 24:6,7
And 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…

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Psalm 91
1. The state of the godly
3. Their safety
9. Their habitation
11. Their servants
14. Their friend; with the effects of them all.














(6) Darkness . . . noonday.--Night and noon are, in Oriental climates, the most unwholesome, the former from exhalations, the latter from the fierce heat.

Destruction.--From a root meaning "to cut off;" here, from parallelism, "deadly sickness."

Verse 6. - Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness. The plague god is personified and represented as stalking through the land in the hours of darkness. Parallels have been found in the literature of the Babylonians (see 'Babylonian and Oriental Record,' vol. 1, p. 12) and elsewhere. Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday. The rare word, קטב, translated "destruction" here and in Deuteronomy 32:24, is rendered by the LXX. διαμόνιον, and the entire phrase, "for the destruction that wasteth at noonday" becomes ἀπὸ συμπτώματος καὶ δαιμονίου μεσημβρινοῦ - "from ruin and the demon of the midday" - by which sunstroke would seem to be meant (comp. Psalm 121:6, "The sun shall not smite thee by day").

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
the plague
מִ֭דֶּבֶר (mid·de·ḇer)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1698: A pestilence

that stalks
יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ (ya·hă·lōḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1980: To go, come, walk

in darkness,
בָּאֹ֣פֶל (bā·’ō·p̄el)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 652: Darkness, gloom

or the calamity
מִ֝קֶּ֗טֶב (miq·qe·ṭeḇ)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6986: Destruction

that destroys
יָשׁ֥וּד (yā·šūḏ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7736: To swell up, to devastate

at noon.
צָהֳרָֽיִם׃ (ṣā·ho·rā·yim)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 6672: A light, double light, noon


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