Psalms 58:9

Verse

Berean Standard Bible

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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.

Free Bible Version

Before the cooking pot is hot from burning thorns, whether fresh or dry, God will blow them away.

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.

King James (Authorized) Version

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

One Unity Resource Bible

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

Translation for Translators

Get rid of them as fast as thornbushes are blown away after they are cut (OR, as fast as a fire heats a pot over burning thorns).

Unlocked Literal Bible

Before your pots can feel the thorn's burning heat, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green thorns and the burning thorns alike.

Noah Webster Bible

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.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Context

God Judges the Earth

⁸Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun. ⁹Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away. ¹⁰The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.

Summary

This verse expresses the righteous desire for God to bring judgment upon the wicked. It reflects the psalmist's confidence in God's justice and sovereignty, trusting that He will execute righteous judgment. The imagery of God's wrath melting the wicked like a snail or a stillborn child emphasizes the certainty and completeness of God's judgment. Ultimately, this verse serves as a reminder of God's role as the ultimate Judge who will bring justice to all in His perfect timing.

Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill
Tyndale

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

he shall take them away as with a whirlwind--literally, "blow him (them) away." both living . . . wrath--literally, "as the living" or fresh as the heated or burning--that is, thorns--all easily blown away, so easily and quickly the wicked. The figure of the "snail" perhaps alludes to its loss of saliva when moving. Though obscure in its clauses, the general sense of the passage is clear.

John Gill Bible Commentary

Before your pots can feel the thorns,.... Which is soon done; for as dry thorns make a great blaze, so they give a quick heat; the pots soon feel them, or the water in them soon receives heat from them. From imprecations the psalmist proceeds to prophesy, and foretells the sudden destruction of wicked men, which would be before a pot could be heated with a blaze of thorns. The Targum is, "before the wicked become tender, they harden as the thorn:'' that is, they never become tender, or have any tender consciences, but are hardened in sin from their infancy. Some render the words, "before your thorns grow up to a brier" or "bramble" (i); little thorns become great ones, tender thorns hard ones, as Jarchi; that is, as he interprets it, before the children of the wicked are grown up, they are destroyed; those sons of Belial, who are like to thorns thrust away, Sa2 23:6. Others, as Aben Ezra, "before they understand"; that is, wise and knowing men; "that your thorns are a bramble"; or from lesser ones are become greater; and so denotes, as before, the suddenness and quickness of their destruction, as follows: he, that is, God, shall take them away as with a whirlwind: not to himself, as Enoch; nor to heaven, whither Elijah went up by a whirlwind; but out of the land of the living, and as with a tempest, to hell, where snares, fire, and brimstone, are rained upon them; see Job 27:20; both living, and in his wrath: when in health and full strength, and so go quick to hell; as Korah and his company alive into the earth; and all in wrath and sore displeasure: for the righteous are also taken away; but then it is from the evil to come, and to everlasting happiness; and through many tempestuous providences, which are in love, and for their good, do they enter the kingdom: and those that are alive at Christ's coming will be caught up to meet him in the air; but the wicked are taken away as in a whirlwind, alive, and in wrath. (i) Tigurine version.

Psalms 58:9

God Judges the Earth

Scripture
Sermons
Commentary

Berean Standard Bible

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

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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.

Free Bible Version

Before the cooking pot is hot from burning thorns, whether fresh or dry, God will blow them away.

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.

King James (Authorized) Version

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

One Unity Resource Bible

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

Translation for Translators

Get rid of them as fast as thornbushes are blown away after they are cut (OR, as fast as a fire heats a pot over burning thorns).

Unlocked Literal Bible

Before your pots can feel the thorn's burning heat, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green thorns and the burning thorns alike.

Noah Webster Bible

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.

Young's Literal Translation

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

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill
Tyndale

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Psalms 58:9

Verse

Context

God Judges the Earth

Summary

Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Tyndale Open Study Notes

Psalms 58:9

God Judges the Earth

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

John Gill Bible Commentary

Tyndale Open Study Notes