Psalms 58:9

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

7Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted: 8Let them be as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; [like] the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun. Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away. 10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked: 11And men shall say, Verily there is fruit for the righteous; verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.

Psalms 58:9 word by word

בְּטֶ֤רֶם יָבִ֣ינוּ סִּֽירֹתֵיכֶ֣ם אָטָ֑ד כְּמוֹ־חַ֥י כְּמוֹ־חָ֝ר֗וֹן יִשְׂעָרֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear

Cross-references for Psalms 58:9

• Psalms 118:12They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed them.
• Ecclesiastes 7:6For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This also is vanity.
• Psalms 10:15Break thou the arm of the wicked, and as for the evil man, seek out his wickedness [till] thou find none.
• Psalms 55:23And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.
• Psalms 73:18Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
• Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
• Job 20:5The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
• Proverbs 1:27when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
• Proverbs 10:25As a whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no [more]; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
• Proverbs 14:32The wicked is driven away by his evil-doing; but the righteous trusteth, [even] in his death.
• Isaiah 17:13The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling [of dust] before the whirlwind:
• Isaiah 40:24Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
• Jeremiah 23:19Behold, a tempest of Jehovah, fury is gone forth, yea, a whirling storm: it shall whirl down upon the head of the wicked.
• Numbers 16:30but if Jehovah make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, and all that they have, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have despised Jehovah.

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

Topics related to Psalms 58:9

• Death
• Thorn
• Wicked (People)

In the dictionaries

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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