The sun shall not smite you by day - The Septuagint renders this, “shall not burn you”—συγκαύσει (sungkausei<…

Smite you. —The mention of shade leads to the amplification of the figure. The evil effects of sunstroke are too well kno…

The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night.

The sun shall not smite thee by day. By these forms of expression, the Psalmist magnifies the advantages that result for us from our havin…

The sun shall not smite thee by day
With its rays, which it shoots forth like darts, and which fly swiftly, and pier…

We must not rely upon people and means, instruments and second causes. Shall I depend upon the strength of the hills? Upon princes and great people…