Psalm 91:7
◄  Psalm 91:7  ►
New International Version (©2011)
A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Though a thousand fall at your side, though ten thousand are dying around you, these evils will not touch you.

English Standard Version (©2001)
A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand, but it will not come near you.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
A thousand may fall at your side And ten thousand at your right hand, But it shall not approach you.

King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.)
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Holman Christian Standard Bible (©2009)
Though a thousand fall at your side and ten thousand at your right hand, the pestilence will not reach you.

International Standard Version (©2012)
If a thousand fall at your side or ten thousand at your right hand, it will not overcome you.

NET Bible (©2006)
Though a thousand may fall beside you, and a multitude on your right side, it will not reach you.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English (©2010)
Thousands will fall by your side and 10,000 by your right hand, and they shall not come near you.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
They will not come near you, even though a thousand may fall dead beside you or ten thousand at your right side.

King James 2000 Bible (©2003)
A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.

American King James Version
A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you.

American Standard Version
A thousand shall fall at thy side, And ten thousand at thy right hand; But it shall not come nigh thee.

Douay-Rheims Bible
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee.

Darby Bible Translation
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

English Revised Version
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Webster's Bible Translation
A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

World English Bible
A thousand may fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

Young's Literal Translation
There fall at thy side a thousand, And a myriad at thy right hand, Unto thee it cometh not nigh.

Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

A thousand shall fall at thy side,.... The left side, as the Targum; so the Arabic version, and Jarchi and Kimchi; which sense the opposition and distinction in the next clause direct unto: this is not to be understood of falling in battle, as some interpret it, but by the pestilence before spoken of:

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Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A thousand shall fall at thy side - Though a thousand should fall at thy side, or close to thee. This alludes to the manner in which the pestilence often moves among people.

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Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

A thousand shall fall at thy side - Calmet thinks this place should be translated thus: "A thousand enemies may fall upon thee on one side, and ten thousand may fall upon thee on thy right hand: but they shall not come nigh thee to take away thy life." It is a promise of perfect protection, and the utmost safety.

Geneva Study Bible

A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7, 8. The security is more valuable, as being special, and, therefore, evidently of God; and while ten thousands of the wicked fall, the righteous are in such safety that they only see the calamity.

Psalm 91:7 Parallel Commentaries
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My Refuge and My Fortress
…6Nor for the pestilence that walks in darkness; nor for the destruction that wastes at noonday. 7A thousand shall fall at your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it shall not come near you. 8Only with your eyes shall you behold and see the reward of the wicked. …

Genesis 7:23 Every living thing on the face of the earth was wiped out; people and animals and the creatures that move along the ground and the birds were wiped from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those with him in the ark.
Joshua 14:10 "Now then, just as the LORD promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old!