The Jewish response was largely traditional: fasting and repentance, prayer and Psalms, especially Psalm 91 (Yoshev B’Seter), which the Talmud (Shavuot 15b) describes as “a poem against pega ...

Satan is quoting Psalm 91 here, but modern readers may not appreciate the multiple ... Right up to the 19th century, legends told of pious Christians who used the prayer to survive epidemics that ...