Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Psalms 58:9 in other translations
| BSB | Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away. |
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| WEB | Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike. |
| ASV | Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike. |
| YLT | Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away. |
| DARBY | Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away. |
| BBE | Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth. |
| Webster | Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. |
What does Psalms 58:9 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 58:8-9
8-9. Other figures of this utter ruin; the last denoting rapidity. In a shorter time than pots feel the heat of thorns on fire--
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 58:6-11
David prayed that the enemies of God's church and people might be disabled to do further mischief. We may, in faith, pray against the designs of the enemies of the church. He foretells their ruin. And who knows the power of God's anger? The victories of the Just One, in his own person and that of his servants, over the enemies of man's salvation, produce a joy which springs not from revenge, but from a view of the…
Psalms 58:9 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 58:9
- Proverbs 10:25
As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
- Psalms 118:12
They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the Lord I will destroy them.
- Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
- Isaiah 17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
- Jeremiah 23:19
Behold, a whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
- Psalms 10:2
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
- Isaiah 40:24
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
- Psalms 73:18-20
Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors. As a dream when one awaketh; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
- Job 20:5-29
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. …
- Psalms 10:5
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
- Proverbs 1:27
When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
- Numbers 16:30
But if the Lord make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the Lord.
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Context
- Psalms 58:8
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.
- Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
- Psalms 58:10
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Psalms 58:9 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Antes que vuestras ollas sientan las espinas, así vivos, así airados, los arrebatará él con tempestad. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Qu’ils soient comme une limace qui va se fondant! Comme l’avorton d’une femme, qu’ils ne voient pas le soleil! |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Bevor eure Töpfe den Dorn merken, möge er ihn, frisch oder brennend, hinwegstürmen! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et tu, Domine, deridebis eos; ad nihilum deduces omnes gentes. |