For I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee: for I have much people in this city.
Ver. 10. For I am with thee] As to behold thy behaviour (Cave, spectat Deus), so to support, defend, and deliver thee. If a child be in the dark, yet, having his father by the hand, he fears nothing. David feared not the "vale of the shadow of death," that is, death in its most horrid and hideous representations, and all because God was with him, Psalms 23:4 .