Revised Version 1895
Psalms 58:9
9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
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 water that runneth apace: when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off. 8Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun. Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike. 10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. 11So that men shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judgeth in the earth.
Read all of Psalms 58Psalms 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 compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: in the name of the LORD I will cut them off.
- 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 55:23But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee.
- Psalms 73:18Surely thou settest them in slippery places: thou castest them down to destruction.
- Job 18:18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
- Job 20:5That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
- Proverbs 1:27When your fear cometh as a storm, and your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you.
- Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passeth, the wicked is no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked is thrust down in his evil-doing: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but he shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.
- Isaiah 40:24Yea, they have not been planted; yea, they have not been sown; yea, their stock hath not taken root in the earth: moreover he bloweth upon them, and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
- Jeremiah 23:19Behold, the tempest of the LORD, even his fury, is gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.
- Numbers 16:30But if the LORD make a new thing, and the ground open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down alive into the pit; then ye shall understand 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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