Psalms 91:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Or of the disease which takes men in the dark, or of the destruction which makes waste when the sun is high.

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  • 2 Kgs 19:35 : 35 And that night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men; and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
  • Ps 121:5-6 : 5 The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. 6 You will not be touched by the sun in the day, or by the moon at night.
  • Matt 24:6-7 : 6 And news will come to you of wars and talk of wars: do not be troubled, for these things have to be; but it is still not the end. 7 For nation will be moved against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and men will be without food, and the earth will be shaking in different places;
  • Exod 12:29-30 : 29 And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first births of all the cattle. 30 Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
  • Num 16:48 : 48 And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.
  • 2 Sam 24:15 : 15 So David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.
  • 1 Cor 10:3-9 : 3 And they all took the same holy food; 4 And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ. 5 But with most of them God was not pleased: for they came to their end in the waste land. 6 Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did. 7 Then do not go after false gods, as some of them did; as it is said in the holy Writings, After resting and feasting, the people got up to take their pleasure. 8 Again, let us not give way to the desires of the flesh, as some of them did, of whom twenty-three thousand came to their end in one day. 9 And let us not put the Lord to the test, as some of them did, and came to their death by snakes. 10 And do not say evil things against the Lord, as some of them did, and destruction overtook them.

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  • Ps 91:3-5
    3 verses
    83%

    3He will take you out of the bird-net, and keep you safe from wasting disease.

    4You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

    5You will have no fear of the evil things of the night, or of the arrow in flight by day,

  • Ps 91:7-12
    6 verses
    81%

    7You will see a thousand falling by your side, and ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you.

    8Only with your eyes will you see the reward of the evil-doers.

    9Because you have said, I am in the hands of the Lord, the Most High is my safe resting-place;

    10No evil will come on you, and no disease will come near your tent.

    11For he will give you into the care of his angels to keep you wherever you go.

    12In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.

  • 6You will not be touched by the sun in the day, or by the moon at night.

  • Job 5:21-22
    2 verses
    72%

    21He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

    22You will make sport of destruction and need, and will have no fear of the beasts of the earth.

  • 25Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers:

  • 19Whenever they come through they will overtake you; for they will come through morning after morning, by day and by night: and the news will be nothing but fear.

  • 25Go not out into the field or by the way; for there is the sword of the attacker, and fear on every side.

  • 14In the evening there is fear, and in the morning they are gone. This is the fate of those who take our goods, and the reward of those who violently take our property for themselves.

  • 21The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going.

  • 15Outside is the sword, and inside disease and need of food: he who is in the open country will be put to the sword; he who is in the town will come to his end through need of food and disease.

  • 14All your rights will be made certain to you: have no fear of evil, and destruction will not come near you.

  • 17For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

  • Ps 139:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

    12Even the dark is not dark to you; the night is as bright as the day: for dark and light are the same to you.

  • 22The deceit of those who are against him will not overcome him; he will not be troubled by the sons of evil.

  • 14In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.

  • 12He who is far away will come to his death by disease; he who is near will be put to the sword; he who is shut up will come to his death through need of food; and I will give full effect to my passion against them.

  • 4Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.

  • 6And in that day there will be no heat or cold or ice;

  • 6And I will give you peace in the land, and you will take your rest and no one will give you cause for fear; and I will put an end to all evil beasts in the land, and no sword of war will go through your land.

  • 28If there is no food in the land, if there is disease, if the fruits of the earth are damaged by heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers: whatever trouble or whatever disease there may be:

  • 22There is no dark place, and no thick cloud, in which the workers of evil may take cover.

  • 1Happy is he whose resting-place is in the secret of the Lord, and under the shade of the wings of the Most High;

  • Job 3:5-6
    2 verses
    68%

    5Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

    6That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

  • 17Be not a cause of fear to me: you are my safe place in the day of evil.

  • 66Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and nothing in life will be certain:

  • 19Or if I send disease into that land, letting loose my wrath on it in blood, cutting off from it man and beast:

  • 20Will not the day of the Lord be dark and not light? even very dark, with no light shining in it?

  • 4Yes, though I go through the valley of deep shade, I will have no fear of evil; for you are with me, your rod and your support are my comfort.

  • 10For the stars of heaven and its bright armies will not give their light: the sun will be made dark in his journey through the heaven, and the moon will keep back her light.

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  • 5Before him went disease, and flames went out at his feet.

  • 37If there is no food in the land, or if there is disease, or if the fruits of the earth are damaged through heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers; whatever trouble, whatever disease there may be:

  • 29You will go feeling your way when the sun is high, like a blind man for whom all is dark, and nothing will go well for you: you will be crushed and made poor for ever, and you will have no saviour.

  • 6In the morning it is green; in the evening it is cut down, and becomes dry.

  • 15Do not keep a secret watch, O evil-doer, against the fields of the upright man, or send destruction on his resting-place:

  • 9And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:

  • 25Outside they will be cut off by the sword, and in the inner rooms by fear; death will take the young man and the virgin, the baby at the breast and the grey-haired man.

  • 11Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

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    6I will have no fear, though ten thousand have come round me, putting themselves against me.

  • 19He will keep you safe from six troubles, and in seven no evil will come near you.