Psalms 58:9

As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.

Geneva Bible 1599

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 consume like a snayle that melteth, and like the vntimely fruite of a woman, that hath not seene the sunne.

10The righteous shall reioyce when he seeeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feete in the blood of the wicked.

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Cross References

Job 3:16Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?

Job 20:5That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

Psalms 10:2The wicked with pride doeth persecute the poore: let them be taken in the craftes that they haue imagined.

Psalms 55:23And thou, O God, shalt bring them downe into the pitte of corruption: the bloudie, and deceitfull men shall not liue halfe their dayes: but I will trust in thee.

Psalms 118:12They came about mee like bees, but they were quenched as a fire of thornes: for in the Name of the Lord I shall destroy them.

Proverbs 10:25As the whirlewinde passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is as an euerlasting 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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