Psalms 58:8

Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, say they, has heard?

Brenton Septuagint

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 shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city.

9But thou, Lord, wilt laugh them to scorn; thou wilt utterly set at nought all the heathen.

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Cross References

Job 10:19and I become as if I had not been? for why was I not carried from the womb to the grave?

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.

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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