Psalms 58:9
Get rid of them as fast as thornbushes are blown away after they are cut (OR, as fast as a fire heats a pot over burning thorns).
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Cross References
Job 3:16I wish that I had been buried like a child who died in its mother’s womb and never lived to see the light.
Job 20:5wicked people like you do not continue to rejoice for a long time, ungodly people are happy only for a ◄moment/very short time► [HYP]?
Psalms 10:2People who are proud gladly cause poor people to suffer. So cause what they do to others to happen to them! May they be caught in the same traps that they set to catch others [MET]!
Psalms 55:23God, you will cause murderers [MTY] and liars to die before they have lived half as long as they expect to live; but as for me, I will trust in you.
Psalms 118:12They swarmed around me like angry bees; they were like a fire that blazes strongly, but only briefly, in a thornbush, but I defeated them by the power [MTY] that Yahweh gave me.
Proverbs 10:25When storms come, the wicked will ◄be blown away/never be safe►, but righteous people will be safe 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 →