Psalms 58:9

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.

Majority Standard Bible

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

8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

10The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

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Cross References

Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?

Psalms 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Psalms 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

Psalms 118:12They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.

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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