Psalm 91:5-6

Psalm 91 was the Psalm this week (for the Feast of St. Michael and All Angels), and I was reminded of something I noticed about it a couple years ago (in December 2016), specifically in these verses:  "5 You will not fear the terror of the night, nor the arrow that flies by day, / 6 nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday."  Both of these verses contain a merism relating to time:  "night" and "day" in verse 5 and "darkness" and "noonday" in verse 6.  Taken individually, each verse gives a sense of God's protecting us during the course of a single day.  But if they're taken together and each temporal element is understood as a different day, there's a sense of God's ongoing and continual protection.