KJV 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.
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Psalm 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.
WEB World English Bible
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
ASV American Standard Version
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
Surrounding context — Psalm 58
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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Proverbs 10:25As the whirlwind passeth, so [is] the wicked no [more]: but the righteous [is] an everlasting foundation.Ecclesiastes 7:6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so [is] the laughter of the fool: this also [is] vanity.Psalm 118:12They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.Jeremiah 23:19Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.Isaiah 17:13The 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.Numbers 16:30But 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.Psalm 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.Proverbs 1:27When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.Job 20:5-29That the triumphing of the wicked [is] short, and the joy of the hypocrite [but] for a moment?Isaiah 40:24Yea, 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.Job 27:21The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.Psalm 10:2The wicked in [his] pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.Proverbs 14:32The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.Psalm 10:5His ways are always grievous; thy judgments [are] far above out of his sight: [as for] all his enemies, he puffeth at them.Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.Psalm 73:18-20Surely thou didst set them in slippery places: thou castedst them down into destruction.
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