John Gill 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 an host should encamp against me
An host of the ungodly, as the Targum; though ever so many of them, even ten thousands of them, as in (Psalms 3:6) ; should beset him on every side;

my heart shall not fear ;
for not only the angels of the Lord encamped about him, as they do about all that fear the Lord; but salvation was appointed for walls and bulwarks about him; yea, the Lord himself was a wall of fire around him, and he was kept as in a garrison by the power of God;

though war should rise against me :
in all its terrible shapes:

in this [will] I [be] confident ;
either in this war, in the midst of it; or in this that he had expressed, (Psalms 27:1) ; that the Lord was his light, his salvation, and the strength of his life; so the Jewish writers ^F5 : or as others ^F6 , in this one thing, desired in (Psalms 27:4) ; but either of the former senses is best, especially the latter of them. Saints need not be afraid, though there is a war within them between the flesh and spirit; and though without are fightings with Satan and his principalities and powers; since they may be confident of victory, and that they are more than conquerors, through Christ that has loved them.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F5: Jarchi, Kimchi, & Aben Ezra in loc.
• F6: Some in Aben Ezra in loc.