Psalms 58:9

Before your pots feel the heat of the thorns, Whether fresh, or burning, may they be blown away!

Noyes 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

8May they be like the snail, which melteth away as it goeth; Like the abortion of a woman, that seeth not the sun!

10The righteous shall rejoice, when he seeth such vengeance; He shall bathe his feet in the blood of the wicked.

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Cross References

Job 3:16Or, as a hidden untimely birth, I had perished; As infants which never saw the light.

Job 20:5The triumphing of the wicked hath been short, And the joy of the impious but for a moment?

Psalms 10:2Through the haughtiness of the wicked the poor are in distress; They are caught in the wiles which are contrived for them.

Psalms 55:23Yea, thou, O God! wilt bring them down into the lowest pit! Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in thee!

Psalms 118:12They beset me around like bees; They were quenched like the fire of thorns, For in the name of the LORD I destroyed them.

Proverbs 10:25When 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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