Parallel Verses
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 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 the snail that dissolves into slime, like the stillborn child who never sees the sun.
9
He will
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 118:12
They surrounded me like bees; they went out like a fire among thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off!
Proverbs 10:25
When the tempest passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is established forever.
Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fools; this also is vanity.
Numbers 16:30
But if the LORD creates something new, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them up with all that belongs to them, and they go down alive into Sheol, then you shall know that these men have despised the LORD."
Job 18:18
He is thrust from light into darkness, and driven out of the world.
Job 20:5-29
that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the godless but for a moment?
Job 27:21
The east wind lifts him up and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
Psalm 10:2
In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the poor; let them be caught in the schemes that they have devised.
Psalm 10:5
His ways prosper at all times; your judgments are on high, out of his sight; as for all his foes, he puffs at them.
Psalm 55:23
But you, O God, will cast them down into the pit of destruction; men of blood and treachery shall not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
Psalm 73:18-20
Truly you set them in slippery places; you make them fall to ruin.
Proverbs 1:27
when terror strikes you like a storm and your calamity comes like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is overthrown through his evildoing, but the righteous finds refuge in his death.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 40:24
Scarcely are they planted, scarcely sown, scarcely has their stem taken root in the earth, when he blows on them, and they wither, and the tempest carries them off like stubble.
Jeremiah 23:19
Behold, the storm of the LORD! Wrath has gone forth, a whirling tempest; it will burst upon the head of the wicked.