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Psalms 58:9
9Remove them quickly, more quickly than pots become hot over a fire of thorn bushes.
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
7Cause them to run away like water and disappear. Cause them to die like dry grass in hot weather. 8Cause them to be like a worm that melts as it moves along. Cause them to be like a child that is born dead and never sees the light of day. Remove them quickly, more quickly than pots become hot over a fire of thorn bushes. 10When God punishes those wicked people, righteous people will be very happy. They will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked people! 11People who see it will say, ‘It is true! God helps good people! There is a God who judges people on earth in a fair way.’
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 were all round me like a cloud of bees! But they were like a fire in a thorn bush that burns quickly and has soon gone. I turned them away by the power of the Lord.
- Ecclesiastes 7:6If you use thorn bushes to make a fire, they make a lot of noise but they burn too quickly. When a foolish person laughs, their noise also has no purpose.
- Psalms 10:15Take hold of the arm of the wicked, evil man! Break it and take away his strength! Punish him for the bad things that he has done, so that he has to stop.
- Psalms 55:23And as for wicked people, you, God, will send them to their graves. They will go down into the deep hole of death while they are still young. That is what will happen to those cruel people, who kill and cheat others. But I will trust in you, God.
- Psalms 73:18Yes, I realized that they are in a dangerous place, where they will easily slip. You will cause them to fall down to their death.
- Job 18:18The wicked person has had to leave this world. He has gone from a place where there is light to a place where it is dark.
- Job 20:5You know that a wicked person is only happy for a short time. His joy continues only for a moment.
- Proverbs 1:27Fear may hit you like a strong wind. Trouble may knock you down, like a storm. Your problems may make you very afraid. But I will laugh at you.
- Proverbs 10:25When the storm has finished, wicked people are no longer there. But righteous people are still standing safely.
- Proverbs 14:32When wicked people are in trouble, they cannot stand. But righteous people still trust God, even when they are in danger of death.
- Isaiah 17:13But it does not matter how much noise they make. Those people may roar like powerful waves, but the Lord will shout at them to stop. Then they will run far away! They will run like the wind as it blows chaff across the hills. It will be like a strong storm that carries away dead weeds!
- Isaiah 40:24They are like plants that soon disappear. Somebody plants them in the ground. But while their roots are still growing into the soil, God blows on them and they become dry. Then the wind carries them away like straw.
- Jeremiah 23:19But look! The Lord's anger will come like a strong storm. It will blow away the heads of those wicked people.
- Numbers 16:30But if the Lord causes something new to happen to these men, you will know that they have turned against him. For example, a hole might appear in the ground so that these men fall into it. They might fall down into their own graves while they are still alive. If that happens to them and to all that belongs to them, then you will know that the Lord has punished them.’
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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