Psalms 91:5 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Bible Comments

By night, when evil accidents are most terrible and least avoidable. The arrow; the pestilence, or any such common and destructive calamity; for such are frequently called God's arrows, as Dent. Deuteronomy 32:23,42 La 3:12,13, &c. By day, which is the time for shooting of arrows. The sense of the verse is, He shall be kept from secret and open mischiefs at all times.

Psalms 91:5

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;