Psalms 58:9

(58:10) Before your pots can feel the thorns, will he take them away with a whirlwind, both the green and the burning.

Leeser Tanakh

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

8(58:9) As a snail which melteth, let him pass away; like the untimely birth of a woman which hath not seen the sun.

10(58:11) The righteous will rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he will bathe his steps in the blood of the wicked.

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Cross References

Job 3:16Or as an untimely birth, hidden [from view] I should not exist; as infants that never have seen the light;

Job 20:5That the triumphal shouting of the wicked is ever of but a recent date, and the joy of the hypocrite endureth only for a moment.

Psalms 10:2In the pride of the wicked doth he hotly pursue the poor: they are seized through the plans that those have devised.

Psalms 55:23(55:24) But thou, O God, thou wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: let not the men of blood and deceit live out half their days; but I will indeed trust in thee.

Psalms 118:12They encompassed me about like bees; they blazed up like the fire of thorns; but in the name of the Lord I will surely cut them off.

Proverbs 10:25As the whirlwind passeth by, 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 →

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