Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
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Job 3:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, As infants that never saw light.
Job 20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Psalms 10:2In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
Psalms 55:23But thou, O God, wilt 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. Psalm 56 For the Chief Musician; set to Jonath elem rehokim. [A Psalm] of David. Michtam: when the Philistines took him in Gath.
Psalms 118:12They compassed me about like bees; They are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passeth, the wicked is 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 →