Psalm 58:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away, like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.

Cross References

Job 18:18

He is driven from light into darkness, and banished from the world.

Job 27:21

The east wind seizes him and he is gone; it sweeps him from his place;

Job 3:16

Or why was I not buried away like a stillborn child, like babies that have never seen the light?

Psalm 10:2

Arrogant scoundrels pursue the poor; they trap them by their cunning schemes.

Psalm 10:5

Yet their affairs always succeed; they ignore your judgment on high; they sneer at all who oppose them.

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees; they burned up like fire among thorns; in the Lord’s name I cut them off.

Psalm 55:23

Cast your care upon the Lord, who will give you support. He will never allow the righteous to stumble.

Proverbs 1:27

When terror comes upon you like a storm, and your doom approaches like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish befall you.’

Proverbs 10:25

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

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked are overthrown by their wickedness, but the just find a refuge in their integrity.

Ecclesiastes 7:6

For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the fool’s laughter. This also is vanity.

Isaiah 17:13

But God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, Driven like chaff on the mountains before a wind, like tumbleweed before a storm.

Isaiah 40:24

Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely their stem rooted in the earth, When he breathes upon them and they wither, and the stormwind carries them away like straw.

Jeremiah 23:19

See, the storm of the Lord! His wrath breaks forth In a whirling storm that bursts upon the heads of the wicked.

Numbers 16:30

But if the Lord makes a chasm, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them with all belonging to them, and they go down alive to Sheol, then you will know that these men have spurned the Lord.”