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Psalms 91:7

Protection and safetyFear

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

6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.

Though a thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, no harm will come near you.

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

9 Because you have made the LORD your dwelling— my refuge, the Most High—

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BSB
Though a thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand, no harm will 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.
WEB
A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.
ASV
A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; [But] it shall not come nigh thee.
DARBY
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; [but] it shall not come nigh thee.
BLB
A thousand may fall at your side, and a multitude at your right hand—it shall not draw near to you.
ÅB
Faller tusen ved din side og ti tusen ved din høyre hånd, til deg skal det ikke nå.
OTB
Om tusen faller ved din side
Og ti tusen ved din høyre hånd,
Skal det ikke komme nær deg.
B1930
Faller tusen ved din side og ti tusen ved din høire hånd, til dig skal det ikke nå.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Exodus 12:12–13

    On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

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  • Genesis 7:23

    And every living thing on the face of the earth was destroyed—man and livestock, crawling creatures and birds of the air; they were blotted out from the earth, and only Noah and those with him in the ark remained.

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  • Psalms 32:6

    Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.

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  • Numbers 14:37–38

    those men who had brought out the bad report about the land—were struck down by a plague before the LORD.

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  • Joshua 14:10

    Now behold, as the LORD promised, He has kept me alive these forty-five years since He spoke this word to Moses, while Israel wandered in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old,

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