This verse is often misinterpreted as a blanket guarantee of physical immunity from all plagues, diseases, or disasters for Christians, fostering a prosperity gospel view that expects no sickness or harm regardless of faith level or context; in truth, it poetically conveys God's general faithfulness in protecting the trusting from terror and peril within the psalm's broader theme of spiritual security, not an absolute promise exempting believers from all earthly trials.
Psalms 91:6
King James Version (1769)
6 Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
Psalms 91:6 assures believers of God's protective power against invisible and sudden threats, such as pestilence that spreads stealthily in the darkness and destruction that strikes unexpectedly at noonday, emphasizing that those who dwell in the secret place of the Most High are safeguarded from both nocturnal perils and midday calamities through divine oversight and deliverance.