Psalms 58:9

Faster than a thorn-fire heats your pots, he will come with his tempest and sweep them away.

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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 the snail that dissolves on its crawling path, like the birth untimely which sees not the sunlight.

10The sight of such vengeance will gladden the righteous; their feet they will wash in the blood of the wicked.

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Cross References

Psalms 10:2The wicked, in their pride, are pursuing the helpless: let them be caught in the schemes they have plotted.

Psalms 55:23But you, God, will hurl them down to the deepest pit. Bloody and treacherous people will not live out half their days; but I will trust you.

Psalms 118:12they swarmed around me like bees, they blazed like a fire of thorns: in the name of the Lord I cut them down.

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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