Psalm 58:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Before your pots can feel the thorns, He shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Before your pots can feel the thorns [that are placed under them for fuel], He will take them away as with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

Common English Bible

⁹ Before your pots feel the thorns, whether green or burned up, God will sweep them away!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ And you, O Lord, will laugh at them. You will lead all the Gentiles to nothing.

Psalm 58:9 Cross References

Proverbs 10:25

When the tempest passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are established forever.

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees; they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

Ecclesiastes 7:6

For like the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of fools; this also is vanity.

Jeremiah 23:19

Look, the storm of the Lord! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.

Isaiah 17:13

[[When the nations roar like the roaring of many waters,]] he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and like whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows upon them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their evildoing, but the righteous find a refuge in their integrity.

Proverbs 1:27

when panic strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will cast them down into the lowest pit; the bloodthirsty and treacherous shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.

Psalm 10:5

Their ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of their sight; as for their foes, they scoff at them.

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance the wicked persecute the poor— let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

Job 27:21

The east wind lifts them up, and they are gone; it sweeps them out of their place.

Job 18:18

They are thrust from light into darkness and driven out of the world.

Numbers 16:30

But if the Lord creates something new and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up, with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the Lord.”

Job 3:16

Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like an infant that never sees the light?