The verses describe Moses' own experience entering the Tabernacle and being enveloped by the Divine cloud. The Midrash states that Psalm 91 was composed by Moses on the day he completed the building of the Tabernacle in the desert. The complete psalm and selected verses have been set to music often, notably by Heinrich Schütz and Felix Mendelssohn, who used verses for his motet Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen. The psalm is a regular part of Jewish, Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican and other Protestant liturgies.

The Septuagint translation attributes it to David. Though no author is mentioned in the Hebrew text of this psalm, Jewish tradition ascribes it to Moses, with David compiling it in his Book of Psalms.

As a psalm of protection, it is commonly invoked in times of hardship. Psalm 91 is the 91st psalm of the Book of Psalms, beginning in English in the King James Version: 'He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.' In the slightly different numbering system in the Greek Septuagint version of the Bible and in the Latin Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 90.

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