Of pestilence in thick darkness that walketh, Of destruction that destroyeth at noon,Psalm 91:6 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleNor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday - The rabbins supposed that the empire of death was under two demons, one of which ruled by day, the other by night. The Vulgate and Septuagint have - the noonday devil. The ancients thought that there were some demons who had the power to injure particularly at noonday. To this Theocritus refers, Id. 1: ver. 15: -
Ου θεμις, ω ποιμαν, το μεσαμβρινον, ου θεμις αμμιν
Συρισδεν· τον Πανα δεδοικαμες· η γαρ απ' αγρας
Τανικα κεκμακως αμπαυεται, εντι γε πικρος,
Και οἱ αει δριμεια χολα ποτι ῥινι καθηται.
"It is not lawful, it is not lawful, O shepherd, to play on the flute at noonday: we fear Pan, who at that hour goes to sleep in order to rest himself after the fatigues of the chase; then he is dangerous, and his wrath easily kindled."
Lucan, in the horrible account he gives us of a grove sacred to some barbarous power, worshipped with the most horrid rites, refers to the same superstition: -
Lucus erat longo nunquam violatus ab aevo,
Non illum cultu populi propiore frequentant,
Sed cessere deis: medio cum Phoebus in axe est.
Aut coelum nox atra tenet, pavet ipse sacerdos
Accessus, dominumque timet deprendere luci.
Lucan, lib. iii., ver. 399.
"Not far away, for ages past, had stood
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
pestilence
Psalm 121:5,6 The LORD is your keeper: the LORD is your shade on your 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...
2 Kings 19:35 And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out...
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 on Israel from the morning even to the time appointed...
Matthew 24:6,7 And you shall hear of wars and rumors of wars: see that you be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass...
1 Corinthians 10:3-10 And did all eat the same spiritual meat...
Psalm 91:6 Parallel Commentaries
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