Whatever danger there may be, it will not touch the one whose confidence is in God. Under the protection of God, he is safe. This is the conviction that gives a man the steady eye of faith in his hour of supreme danger.
A thousand … ten thousand.
Poetic use of large round numbers for rhetorical effect. The Hebrew word translated “ten thousand” sometimes signifies merely an unspecified large number. In Ugaritic (see p. 618) this word is also often used in parallel constructions with “thousand,” and simply denotes large numbers. No calculation should be made from such figurative use of numbers.