Parallel Verses

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.

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.

Context Readings

A Cry Against Injustice

8 As a snail which melts, let them pass away, like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. 9 Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
10 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance; he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.


Cross References

Psalm 118:12

They compassed me about like bees; they were quenched as the fire of thorns; for in the name of the LORD I will cut them off.

Proverbs 10:25

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more, but the righteous is founded for ever.

Ecclesiastes 7:6

The laughter of the fool is as the crackling of thorns under a pot, and this also (the laughter or prosperity of the fool) is vanity.

Numbers 16:30

But if the LORD does a new thing and the earth opens her mouth and swallows them up with all their things and they go down alive into Sheol, then ye shall know that these men have provoked the LORD.

Job 18:18

He shall be driven from the light into the darkness and chased out of the world.

Job 20:5-29

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

Job 27:21

The east wind shall take him away, and he shall depart; the storm shall catch him up out of his place.

Psalm 10:2

The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight; as for all his enemies, he puffs at them.

Psalm 55:23

But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of the grave; bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in thee.

Psalm 73:18-20

Surely thou didst set them in slippery places; in desolation thou shalt cause them to fall.

Proverbs 1:27

when what you have feared comes as destruction, and your calamity comes as a whirlwind; when tribulation and anguish come upon you.

Proverbs 14:32

For his wickedness shall the wicked be cast out, but the righteous in his death has hope.

Isaiah 17:13

The peoples shall make noise like the rushing of great waters, but God shall reprehend them, and they shall flee far off and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind and like the tumbleweed before the whirlwind.

Isaiah 40:24

As if they had never been planted, as if they had never been sown, as if their stock had never taken root in the earth; even blowing upon them, they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

Jeremiah 23:19

Behold, that the whirlwind of the LORD shall go forth with fury, and the whirlwind which is ready shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.

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