Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
They shall melt away as water shall go about to them: he will bend his arrow, they shall be as cut off.
New American Standard Bible
When he
King James Version
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
Holman Bible
they will aim their useless arrows.
International Standard Version
May they flow away like rain water that runs off, may they become like someone who shoots broken arrows.
A Conservative Version
Let them melt away as water that runs with haste. When he aims his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off,
American Standard Version
Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
Amplified
Let them flow away like water that runs off;
When he aims his arrows, let them be as headless shafts.
Bible in Basic English
Let them be turned to liquid like the ever-flowing waters; let them be cut off like the grass by the way.
Darby Translation
Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:
King James 2000
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bends his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Let them run [away] like water [that] runs off. [When] he bends [the bow], let his arrows [be] as though they were cut off.
Modern King James verseion
Let them melt away like waters; they run off to them; he bends his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Let them fall away like water that runneth a pace; and when they shoot their arrows, let them be rooted out.
NET Bible
Let them disappear like water that flows away! Let them wither like grass!
New Heart English Bible
Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
The Emphasized Bible
Let such men flow away like waters that disperse themselves: He prepareth his arrow, Like grass let them be cut down:
Webster
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
World English Bible
Let them vanish as water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt.
Youngs Literal Translation
They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 58:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Against Injustice
6 God destroyed their teeth in their mouth: Jehovah broke down the young lions' grinders. 7 They shall melt away as water shall go about to them: he will bend his arrow, they shall be as cut off. 8 As a snail shall melt away he shall go: fire fell; they saw not the sun.
Phrases
Cross References
Joshua 7:5
And the men of Ai will smite of them about thirty and six men; and they will pursue them before the gate, even to Shebarim; and they will smite them in going down, and the heart of the people will melt and will be as water.
Psalm 112:10
The unjust one shall see and be angry; shall gnash his teeth and he melted away: the desire of the unjust shall perish.
Psalm 64:3
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, they bent their arrows a bitter word:
Isaiah 13:7
For this all hands shall be relaxed, and every heart of man shall melt.
Exodus 15:15
Then the chiefs of Edom trembled; the mighty of Moab, trembling, shall take them; all those dwelling in Canaan melted away.
Joshua 2:9-11
And she will say to the men, I knew that Jehovah gave to you the land, and that your terror fell upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land melted from your face.
2 Samuel 17:10
And he also the son of strength whose heart according to the heart of the lion, melting, will melt away: for all Israel knew that thy father is mighty, and the sons of strength which are with him.
Psalm 22:14
I was poured out as water, and all my bones were sundered; my heart was as wax being melted in the midst of my bowels.
Psalm 64:7-8
God shall be exalted; their blows were the arrow of the simple.