Psalms 58:9
What does Psalms 58:9 mean?
A plain-English look at Psalms 58:9 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, — they shall be whirled away.
Context
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Proverbs 1:27
When your fear cometh as a storm, And your calamity cometh on as a whirlwind; When distress and anguish come upon you.
- Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
- Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; And it sweepeth him out of his place.
- Job 18:18
He shall be driven from light into darkness, And chased out of the world.
- Psalms 73:18
Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.
- Job 20:5
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the godless but for a moment?
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