Psalms 58:9

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

In Context

8as a snail which melts and passes away, [as] the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.

10A righteous man shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

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Cross References

Job 3:16Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.

Job 20:5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the profane but for a moment?

Psalms 10:2In the pride of the wicked man the poor man is hotly pursued. Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

Psalms 55:23But thou, O God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

Psalms 118:12They encompassed me around like bees. They are quenched as the fire of thorns. In the name of LORD I will cut them off.

Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked man is no more, but the righteous man is an everlasting foundation.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 58:7-11

Prophetic Imprecations. 6 Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord . 7 Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. 8 As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. 10 The righteous shall… Read the whole commentary →

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