Tree of Life Version
Psalms 58:9
9Like a slug melting away as it slithers, like a woman’s miscarriage, may they never see the sun.
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
7O God, break their teeth in their mouths. Tear out the fangs of young lions, Adonai. 8Let them flow away like water that runs off. When he bends his bow, let the arrows be cut off. Like a slug melting away as it slithers, like a woman’s miscarriage, may they never see the sun. 10Even before your pots can feel a thorn —whether alive or ablaze— He will sweep the wicked away. 11The righteous one will rejoice when he beholds vengeance, when he washes his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Read all of Psalms 58Psalms 58:9 word by word
בְּטֶ֤רֶם יָבִ֣ינוּ סִּֽירֹתֵיכֶ֣ם אָטָ֑ד כְּמוֹ־חַ֥י כְּמוֹ־חָ֝ר֗וֹן יִשְׂעָרֶֽנּוּ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 58:9
- Psalms 118:12They swarmed around me like bees— they were extinguished like burning thorns— in the Name of Adonai I cut them off.
- Ecclesiastes 7:6For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is vapor.
- Psalms 10:15Break the arm of the wicked, evil one! Call him to account for his wickedness— until no more is found.
- Psalms 55:23Cast your burden on Adonai, and He will sustain you. He will never let the righteous be shaken.
- Psalms 73:18Surely You put them in slippery places. You hurled them down to destruction.
- Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
- Job 20:5that the triumph of the wicked is short and the joy of the godless is but for a moment?
- Proverbs 1:27when your terror comes like a storm and your calamity sweeps over you like a whirlwind, when trouble and distress overwhelm you!
- Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the foundation of the righteous is everlasting.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked is brought down in his calamity yet the righteous has a refuge even in death.
- Isaiah 17:13The nations will rush in like the rumbling of many waters, but He will rebuke them so they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the hills before the wind, like whirling dust before the storm.
- Isaiah 40:24Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely their stem takes root in the earth, when He blows on them and they wither, and a storm carries them off as stubble.
- Jeremiah 23:19Look, a storm of Adonai goes out in fury, yes, a whirling tempest will swirl down on the head of the wicked.
- Numbers 16:30But if Adonai brings about a new thing, and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them and everything that is theirs, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised Adonai.”
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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