Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
New American Standard Bible
He will
King James Version
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Holman Bible
whether green or burning—
He will sweep them away.
International Standard Version
Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns whether green or ablaze wrath will sweep them away like a storm.
A Conservative Version
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
American Standard Version
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
Amplified
Before your cooking pots can feel the fire of thorns [burning under them as fuel],
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.
Darby Translation
Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, they shall be whirled away.
Julia Smith Translation
Before your pots shall perceive the thorn, as living, as in wrath, he will sweep him away.
King James 2000
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Before your pots can feel [the heat of] a thornbush, whether green [or] {dry}, he will sweep it away.
Modern King James verseion
Before your pots can feel the thorns, whether green or glowing, He shall sweep it away.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As a green thorn kindled with fire goeth out before your pots be made hot; even so, let a furious rage bring him to nought.
NET Bible
Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.
New Heart English Bible
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
The Emphasized Bible
Before your kettles can perceive the kindled bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away.
Webster
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
World English Bible
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
Youngs Literal Translation
Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
Themes
Meteorology » Whirlwind » General references to
Whirlwind » Illustrative of the » Sudden destruction of the wicked
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 58:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Against Injustice
8 Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun. 9 Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth. 10 The upright man will be glad when he sees their punishment; his feet will be washed in the blood of the evil-doer.
Phrases
Cross References
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.
Proverbs 10:25
When the storm-wind is past, the sinner is seen no longer, but the upright man is safe for ever.
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.
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.
Job 18:18
He is sent away from the light into the dark; he is forced out of the world.
Job 20:5-29
That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?
Job 27:21
The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place.
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 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.
Psalm 73:18-20
You put their feet where there was danger of slipping, so that they go down into destruction.
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 14:32
The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.
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