Psalms 58:9

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

World English 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

8Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

10The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance. He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked,

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Cross References

Job 3:16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

Job 20:5that the triumphing of the wicked is short, the joy of the godless but for a moment?

Psalms 10:2In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Psalms 55:23But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you.

Psalms 118:12They surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the LORD’s name I cut them off.

Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm 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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