Parallel Verses

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 American Standard Bible

Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.

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

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns—
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 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.

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.

Context Readings

A Cry Against Injustice

8 Let them be like a snail that melts away as it moves along! Let them be like stillborn babies that never see the sun! 9 Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat. 10 The godly will rejoice when they see vengeance carried out; they will bathe their feet in the blood of the wicked.


Cross References

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees. But they disappeared as quickly as a fire among thorns. Indeed, in the name of the Lord I pushed them away.

Proverbs 10:25

When the storm passes through, the wicked are swept away, but the righteous are an everlasting foundation.

Ecclesiastes 7:6

For like the crackling of quick-burning thorns under a cooking pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This kind of folly also is useless.

Numbers 16:30

But if the Lord does something entirely new, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them up along with all that they have, and they go down alive to the grave, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord!"

Job 18:18

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

Job 20:5-29

that the elation of the wicked is brief, the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

Job 27:21

The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Psalm 10:2

The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; the oppressed are trapped by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up.

Psalm 10:5

He is secure at all times. He has no regard for your commands; he disdains all his enemies.

Psalm 55:23

But you, O God, will bring them down to the deep Pit. Violent and deceitful people will not live even half a normal lifespan. But as for me, I trust in you.

Psalm 73:18-20

Surely you put them in slippery places; you bring them down to ruin.

Proverbs 1:27

when what you dread comes like a whirlwind, and disaster strikes you like a devastating storm, when distressing trouble comes on you.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked will be thrown down in his trouble, but the righteous have refuge even in the threat of death.

Isaiah 17:13

Though these people make an uproar as loud as the roaring of powerful waves, when he shouts at them, they will flee to a distant land, driven before the wind like dead weeds on the hills, or like dead thistles before a strong gale.

Isaiah 40:24

Indeed, they are barely planted; yes, they are barely sown; yes, they barely take root in the earth, and then he blows on them, causing them to dry up, and the wind carries them away like straw.

Jeremiah 23:19

But just watch! The wrath of the Lord will come like a storm! Like a raging storm it will rage down on the heads of those who are wicked.

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