Psalms 58:9

Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

Young's Literal Translation

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

8As a snail that melteth he goeth on, [As] an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun.

10The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

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Cross References

Job 3:16(Or as a hidden abortion I am not, As infants — they have not seen light.)

Job 20:5That the singing of the wicked [is] short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

Psalms 10:2Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

Psalms 55:23And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I — I do trust in Thee!

Psalms 118:12They compassed me about as bees, They have been extinguished as a fire of thorns, In the name of Jehovah I surely cut them off.

Proverbs 10:25As the passing by of a hurricane, So the wicked is not, And the righteous is a foundation age-during.

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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