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Psalms 58:9
9Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns — whether green or burning — he will sweep them away.
Psalms 58:9 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
- New International Version (NIV)Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns— whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, He shall take them away as with a whirlwind, As in His living and burning wrath.
Context of Psalms 58:9
7May they vanish like water that flows by; may they aim their blunted arrows. 8Like a slug that moves along in slime, like a woman’s miscarried child, may they not see the sun. Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns — whether green or burning — he will sweep them away. 10The righteous one will rejoice when he sees the retribution; he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11Then people will say, “Yes, there is a reward for the righteous! There is a God who judges on earth!”
Read all of Psalms 58Psalms 58:9 word by word
בְּטֶ֤רֶם יָבִ֣ינוּ סִּֽירֹתֵיכֶ֣ם אָטָ֑ד כְּמוֹ־חַ֥י כְּמוֹ־חָ֝ר֗וֹן יִשְׂעָרֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 58:9
- Psalms 118:12They surrounded me like bees; they were extinguished like a fire among thorns; in the name of the Lord I destroyed them.
- Ecclesiastes 7:6for like the crackling of burning thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
- Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked, evil person, until you look for his wickedness, but it can’t be found.
- Psalms 55:23God, you will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and treachery will not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
- Psalms 73:18Indeed, you put them in slippery places; you make them fall into ruin.
- Job 18:18He is driven from light to darkness and chased from the inhabited world.
- Job 20:5the joy of the wicked has been brief and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?
- Proverbs 1:27when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when trouble and stress overcome you.
- Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked one is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations rage like the rumble of a huge torrent. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills and like tumbleweeds before a gale.
- Isaiah 40:24They are barely planted, barely sown, their stem hardly takes root in the ground when he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.
- Jeremiah 23:19Look, a storm from the Lord! Wrath has gone out, a whirling storm. It will whirl about the heads of the wicked.
- Numbers 16:30But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord.”
Commentaries on Psalms 58:9
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 9Before your pots can feel the thorns - Ye shall be destroyed with a sudden destruction. From the time that the fire of God's wrath is kindled about you, it will be but as a moment before ye be entirely consumed by it: so very short will be the time, that it may be likened to the heat of the first blaze of dry thorns under a pot, that has not as yet been able to penetrate the metal, and warm what is contained in it. A whirlwind - Or the suffocating simoon…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 9Before your pots can feel the thorns - The word “thorns” here - אטד 'âṭâd - refers to what is called “Christ‘s thorn,” the southern buckthorn. “Gesenius.” The fire made of such thorns when dry would be quick and rapid, and water would be soon heated by it. The idea is, that what is here referred to would occur “quickly” - sooner than the most rapid and intense fire could make an impression on a kettle and its contents. The destruction of the wicked…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-11Verses 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 Divine mercy, justice, and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 9-10God’s judgment will come suddenly. The certainty of vindication brings joy to the godly.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 8-98-9. Other figures of this utter ruin; the last denoting rapidity. In a shorter time than pots feel the heat of thorns on fire--Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 58
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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