Psalm 58:9 - Psalms of David in Metre 1650 (Scottish Psalter)

⁹ He shall them take away before your pots the thorns can find, Both living, and in fury great, as with a stormy wind.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ But thou, O Lord, shalt laugh at them: thou shalt bring all the nations to nothing.

Psalm 58:9 Cross References

Psalm 10:2

The wicked in his loftiness doth persecute the poor: In these devices they have fram'd let them be taken sure.

Psalm 10:5

His ways they always grievous are; thy judgments from his sight Removed are: at all his foes he puffeth with despight.

Psalm 118:12

Like bees they compass'd me about; like unto thorns that flame They quenched are: for them shall I destroy in God's own name.

Psalm 55:23

But thou, O Lord my God, those men in justice shalt o'erthrow, And in destruction's dungeon dark at last shalt lay them low: The bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days: But upon thee with confidence I will depend always.