Do not fear sudden danger or the ruin that overtakes the wicked,
Be not--or, "You shall not be." sudden fear--what causes it (Pro 1:27), any unlooked-for evil (Psa 46:3; Psa 91:12; Pe1 3:14). desolation-- (Pro 1:27).
Be not afraid of sudden fear,.... Of anything terrible that comes unawares, unthought of, by any of the above things mentioned in the preceding note; or by any rumours and reports of danger being near at hand; always think thyself safe in the arms of Wisdom, and under the care of Israel's keeper, who neither slumbers nor sleeps; neither of the desolation of the wicked...
Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh. (l) For when God destroys the wicked he will save his as he did Lot in Sodom.