Psalm 58:9

Bible in Basic English 1965

Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

Cross References

Job 18:18

He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.

Job 27:21

The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.

Job 3:16

Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

Psalm 10:2

The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are ever fixed; your decisions are higher than he may see: as for his haters, they are as nothing to him.

Psalm 118:12

They are round me like bees; but they are put out like a fire among thorns; for in the name of the Lord I will have them cut down.

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

Proverbs 1:27

When your fear comes on you like a storm, and your trouble like a rushing wind; when pain and sorrow come on you.

Proverbs 10:25

When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.

Proverbs 14:32

The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.

Ecclesiastes 7:6

Like the cracking of thorns under a pot, so is the laugh of a foolish man; and this again is to no purpose.

Isaiah 17:13

But he will put a stop to them, and make them go in flight far away, driving them like the waste of the grain on the tops of the mountains before the wind, and like the circling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 40:24

They have only now been planted, and their seed put into the earth, and they have only now taken root, when he sends out his breath over them and they become dry, and the storm-wind takes them away like dry grass.

Jeremiah 23:19

See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.

Numbers 16:30

But if the Lord does something new, opening the earth to take them in, with everything which is theirs, and they go down living into the underworld, then it will be clear to you that the Lord has not been honoured by these men.