Psalm 58:9

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Wipe them out quicker than a pot can be heated by setting thorns on fire.

Cross References

Job 18:18

thrown far from the light into a world of darkness,

Job 27:21

Then a scorching wind will sweep them away

Job 3:16

I wish I had been born dead and then buried, never to see the light of day.

Psalm 10:2

Proud and brutal people hunt down the poor. But let them get caught by their own evil plans!

Psalm 10:5

They are always successful, though they can't understand your teachings, and they keep sneering at their enemies.

Psalm 118:12

They swarmed around like bees, but by the power of the LORD, I got rid of them and their fiery sting.

Psalm 55:23

But what about those people who are cruel and brutal? You will throw them down into the deepest pit long before their time. I trust you, LORD!

Proverbs 1:27

or when trouble and distress surround you like a whirlwind, I will laugh and make fun of you.

Proverbs 10:25

Those crooks will disappear when a storm strikes, but God will keep safe all who obey him.

Proverbs 14:32

In times of trouble the wicked are destroyed, but even at death the innocent have faith.

Ecclesiastes 7:6

Foolish laughter is stupid. It sounds like thorns crackling in a fire.

Isaiah 17:13

But even if they roar like a fearsome flood, God will give the command to turn them back. They will be like dust, or like straw blowing across the hills in a storm.

Isaiah 40:24

They are like flowers freshly sprung up and starting to grow. But when God blows on them, they wilt and are carried off like straw in a storm.

Jeremiah 23:19

They are evil! So in my anger I will strike them like a violent storm.

Numbers 16:30

But suppose the LORD does something that has never been done before. For example, what if a huge crack appears in the ground, and these men and their families fall into it and are buried alive, together with everything they own? Then you will know they have turned their backs on the LORD!”