Psalms 58:8

Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, 1 And a sword is in their lips; for who, say they, has heard? 1

Updated 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. 1

9But thou, Lord, wilt laugh them to scorn; 1 Thou wilt utterly set at nought all the heathen. 1

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Cross References

Job 10:19And I become as if I had not been? 1 For why was I not carried from the womb to the grave? 1

Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, 1 Yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, 1 Yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, 1 And also he have no burial; 1 I said, An untimely birth is better than he. 1

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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