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Psalm 91:4-6
New Catholic Bible
Psalm 91:4-6
New Catholic Bible
4 With his feathers he will shelter you,[a]
and you will take refuge under his wings;
his faithfulness serves as a protective shield.
5 You will not fear the terror by night[b]
nor the arrow that flies by day,
6 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness,
nor the plague[c] that lays waste at midday.
Footnotes
- Psalm 91:4 With his feathers he will shelter you: traditional biblical image (see note on Ps 17:8).
- Psalm 91:5 Terror by night: resulting from true or false alerts of enemy attacks; attacks by day were announced by flying arrows.
- Psalm 91:6 Pestilence . . . plague: dreaded mortal diseases that frequently grew into epidemics (see Deut 32:24; Hos 13:14; Hab 3:5). In place of the plague that lays waste at midday, other versions have: “devil at noon” or the “noonday devil” (apparently a mythological expression for a contagious disease presumed to be caused by the noonday sun).
