Psa 91:5-7 CSB You will not fear the terror of the night, the arrow that flies by day, (6) the plague that stalks in darkness, or the pestilence that ravages at noon. (7) Though a thousand fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, the pestilence will not reach you.
The psalmist, encouraging himself, expanded on the theme of the Lord’s protection from danger.
He enumerated how God delivers a believer from various frightening attacks: (1) God delivers from the fowler’s snare, a figure for insidious attempts against his life. (2) God delivers from… deadly pestilence. (3) God covers him with His wings, a figure of safety and comfort. (4) God protects with His faithfulness, explained here by the metaphor of a shield and rampart.
As a result of God’s help in these ways one who trusts in the Lord will not fear… terror at night, attack by day… pestilence or plague (Psa_91:5-6). Destruction that might lay thousands in defeat will not affect a trusting believer; rather, he will see… the wicked destroyed.
