Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, they shall be whirled 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.
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 as a snail that melteth as it passeth away; like the untimely birth of a woman, let them not see the sun. 9 Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, they shall be whirled away. 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 118:12
They encompassed me like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of Jehovah have I destroyed them.
Proverbs 10:25
As a whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked 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 make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, and all that they have, and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have despised Jehovah.
Job 18:18
He is driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job 20:5-29
The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?
Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away and he is gone; and as a storm it hurleth him out of his place.
Psalm 10:2
The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Psalm 10:5
His ways always succeed; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his adversaries, he puffeth at them.
Psalm 55:23
And thou, O God, wilt bring them down into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. But as for me, I will confide in thee.
Psalm 73:18-20
Truly thou settest them in slippery places, thou castest them down in ruins.
Proverbs 1:27
when your fear cometh as sudden destruction, and your calamity cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come upon you:
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away by his evil-doing; but the righteous trusteth, even in his death.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations rush as the rushing of many waters; but he will rebuke them, and they shall flee far away, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a whirling of dust before the whirlwind:
Isaiah 40:24
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely are they sown, scarcely hath their stock taken root in the earth, but he also bloweth upon them and they wither, and the whirlwind taketh them away as stubble.
Jeremiah 23:19
Behold, a tempest of Jehovah, fury is gone forth, yea, a whirling storm: it shall whirl down upon the head of the wicked.