Text -- Psalms 91:7-16 (NET)

91:7 Though a thousand may fall beside you, and a multitude on your right side, it will not reach you. 91:8 Certainly you will see it with your very own eyes– you will see the wicked paid back. 91:9 For you have taken refuge in the Lord, my shelter, the sovereign One. 91:10 No harm will overtake you; no illness will come near your home. 91:11 For he will order his angels to protect you in all you do. 91:12 They will lift you up in their hands, so you will not slip and fall on a stone. 91:13 You will subdue a lion and a snake; you will trample underfoot a young lion and a serpent. 91:14 The Lord says, “Because he is devoted to me, I will deliver him; I will protect him because he is loyal to me. 91:15 When he calls out to me, I will answer him. I will be with him when he is in trouble; I will rescue him and bring him honor. 91:16 I will satisfy him with long life, and will let him see my salvation.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Psa 91:7

¹ tn Apparently the deadly disease mentioned in v. 6b is the understood subject here.

NET Notes: Psa 91:8

¹ tn Heb “retribution on the wicked.”

NET Notes: Psa 91:9

¹ tn Heb “for you, the Lord, my shelter, the Most High, you have made your dwelling place.”

NET Notes: Psa 91:10

¹ tn Or “confront.”

² tn For this sense of the Hebrew term נגע see Ps 38:11.

³ tn Heb “your tent.”

NET Notes: Psa 91:11

¹ tn Heb “for his angels he will command concerning you.”

² tn Heb “in all your ways.”

NET Notes: Psa 91:12

¹ tn Heb “so your foot will not strike a stone.”

NET Notes: Psa 91:13

¹ tn Heb “walk upon.”

² tn Or perhaps “cobra” (see Ps 58:4).

NET Notes: Psa 91:14

¹ tn The words “the Lord says” are supplied in the translation to clarify that the words which follow are the Lord’s oracle of assurance.

² tn Or “make him secure” (Heb “set him on high”).

³ tn Heb “because he knows my name” (see Ps 9:10).

NET Notes: Psa 91:16

¹ tn Heb “length of days.”