Psalms 58:9

Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, they shall be whirled away.

Darby Translation

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

8Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun.

10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:

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Cross References

Job 3:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.

Job 20:5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

Psalms 10:2The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalms 55:23And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.

Psalms 118:12They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed them.

Proverbs 10:25As a whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no [more]; but the righteous 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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