A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; [but] it shall not come nigh thee.
Ver. 7. A thousand shall fall, &c.] This deadly disease lays heaps upon heaps (as we have had lamentable experience), and scarce leaveth living enough to bury the dead, as in the days of Decius the emperor.
But it shall not come nigh thee] Thou shalt be antidoted and privileged; sc. if God see it good for thee, see Psa 91:6 and thou be careful to serve his providence. The Turks shun not the company of those that have the plague; but pointing upon their foreheads, say, It was written there at their birth when they shall die. Thus to do is not to trust God, but to tempt him.