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God Judges the Earth

Psalms 58:9

In 11 translations

BSB
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
KJV
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.both…: Heb. as living as wrath
WEB
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
ASV
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
LSV
Before your pots discern the bramble, || As living, He whirls away in His burning anger.
YLT
Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
DBY
Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away.
DRC57:10
Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.
GNV
As raw flesh before your pots feele the fire of thornes: so let him cary them away as with a whirlewinde in his wrath.
JPS58:10
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.
LXXE57:10
Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath.

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Original-language editions

WLC58:10
בְּטֶ֤רֶם יָבִ֣ינוּ סִּֽירֹתֵיכֶ֣ם אָטָ֑ד כְּמוֹ־חַ֥י כְּמוֹ־חָ֝ר֗וֹן יִשְׂעָרֶֽנּוּ׃KJV:Ps.58.9
LXX-Br57:10
Πρὸ τοῦ συνιέναι τὰς ἀκάνθας ὑμῶν τὴν ῥάμνον, ὡσεὶ ζῶντας ὡσεὶ ἐν ὀργῇ καταπίεται ὑμᾶς.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
  • Psalms 118:12They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
  • Ecclesiastes 7:6For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
  • Jeremiah 23:19Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
  • Isaiah 17:13The 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.
  • Proverbs 1:27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
  • Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
  • Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
  • Numbers 16:30But 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…
  • Psalms 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
  • Psalms 10:5He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
  • Isaiah 40:24No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
  • Psalms 55:23But 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.
  • Job 20:5–29the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary? Though his arrogance reaches the heavens, and his head touches the clouds, he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen…
  • Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
  • Psalms 73:18–20Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin. How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors! Like one waking from a dream, so You, O Lord, awaken and despise their form.

From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).

Verse numbering differs between Bibles
  • 58:10 in some Bibles
  • 58:9 in most Bibles

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