Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Before your pots can feel the thorns, whether green or glowing, He shall sweep it away.
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.
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.
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 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 as a snail goes into melting; as a miscarriage of a woman, they do not see the sun. 9 Before your pots can feel the thorns, whether green or glowing, He shall sweep it away. 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 118:12
They surround me like bees; they are put out like the fire of thorns; for in the name of Jehovah I will cut them off.
Proverbs 10:25
As the storm passes, so the wicked is no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool; this also is vanity.
Numbers 16:30
But if Jehovah makes a new thing, and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all that they have, and they go down alive into the pit, then you shall understand that these men have provoked Jehovah.
Job 18:18
They drive him from light to darkness, and they make him flee from the world.
Job 20:5-29
that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly is for a moment?
Job 27:21
The east wind lifts him up, and he is gone; for it whirls him out of his place.
Psalm 10:2
The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the plans that they have imagined.
Psalm 10:5
His ways are always perverted; Your judgments are high, out of his sight. As for all his enemies, he puffs at them.
Psalm 55:23
But You, O God, will bring them down into the pit of ruin; bloody and deceitful men shall not live half their days; but I will trust in You.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely You set them in slippery places; You cast them down into ruin.
Proverbs 1:27
when your fear comes as a wasting away, and your ruin comes like a tempest when trouble and pain come upon you.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness, but the righteous has hope in his death.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters; but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Isaiah 40:24
Yes, they shall not be planted; yes, they shall not be sown. Yes, their stump shall not take root in the earth. And He shall also blow on them, and they shall wither, and the tempest shall take them away like stubble.
Jeremiah 23:19
Behold, the tempest of Jehovah has gone forth in fury, a whirling tempest. It shall whirl on the head of the wicked.