Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 27:3

"Though a host should encamp against me, My heart shall not fear: Though war should rise against me, Even then will I be confident." — Psalms 27:3 (ASV)

Though a host. —Literally, Though a camp should encamp.

In this. —Either in this circumstance or in spite of this. . The Septuagint ἐν ταύτῃ, followed by μίαν in the next clause, seems to refer it to the hope about to be expressed. The Rabbinical commentators (e.g., Aben Ezra and Rashi) refer back to the beginning of the psalm. “In this”—namely, that Jehovah is my light—“do I trust.” Rosenmiiller refers it to “the battle” just mentioned, in ipsa pugna.