Psalm 58:9 “Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He…”

Psalm 58:9

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

World English Bible

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

American Standard Version

Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

Geneva Bible 1599

As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.

Darby Translation

Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away.

Young's Literal Translation

Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

Bible in Basic English

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

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Cross references

“thorns”

Psalm 118:12 Ecclesiastes 7:6

Psalm 118:12 · BSB

They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.

Ecclesiastes 7:6 · BSB

For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.

“as”

Proverbs 10:25 Isaiah 17:13 Jeremiah 23:19 Psalm 10:2 Psalm 10:5 Psalm 55:23

Proverbs 10:25 · BSB

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.

Isaiah 17:13 · BSB

The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.

Jeremiah 23:19 · BSB

Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.

Psalm 10:2 · BSB

In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Psalm 10:5 · BSB

He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.

Psalm 55:23 · BSB

But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.

“both living, etc”

Numbers 16:30

Numbers 16:30 · BSB

But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the…

Also

Job 27:21

Job 27:21 · BSB

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

10The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

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