Psalms 58:8

Behold, they will speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: “For who has heard us?”

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In The King James Version

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.

In Context

7They will return toward evening, and they will suffer hunger like dogs, and they will wander around the city.

9And you, O Lord, will laugh at them. You will lead all the Gentiles to nothing.

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Cross References

Job 10:19I should have been as if I had not been: transferred from the womb to the tomb.

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man were to produce one hundred children, and to live for many years, and to attain to an age of many days, and if his soul were to make no use of the goods of his resources, and if he were lacking even a burial: concerning such a man, I declare that a miscarried child is better than he.

James 1:10and a rich one, in his humiliation, for he will pass away like the flower of the grass.

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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