Psalms 58:9

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

Revised Version 1895

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 as a snail which melteth and passeth away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.

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Cross References

Job 3:16Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.

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

Psalms 10:2In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalms 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.

Psalms 118:12They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: in the name of the LORD I will cut them off.

Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passeth, 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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