VERSE STUDY • KJV

Psalm 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.

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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.

Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

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

Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

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

5 Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.

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

11 So that a man shall say, Verily [there is] a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

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HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION

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