Parallel Verses
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 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.
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 consume away like a snail, and like the untimely fruit of a woman; and let them not see the sun. 9 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. 10 The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance, and shall wash his feet in the blood of the ungodly.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 118:12
They came about me like bees, and are extinguished even as the fire among the thorns; for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Proverbs 10:25
The ungodly is like a tempest that passeth over, and is no more seen; but the righteous remaineth sure forever.
Ecclesiastes 7:6
For the laughing of fools is like the crackling of thorns under a pot. And that is but a vain thing.
Numbers 16:30
But and if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth and swallow them and all that pertain unto them, so that they go down quick in to hell: then ye shall understand, that these men have railed upon the LORD."
Job 18:18
he shall be driven from the light into darkness, and cast clean out of the world.
Job 20:5-29
the praise of the ungodly hath been short, and that the joy of the hypocrites continued but the twinkling of an eye?
Job 27:21
A vehement wind carrieth him hence, and departeth: a storm plucketh him out of his place.
Psalm 10:2
While the ungodly hath the overhand, the poor must suffer persecution; let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined!
Psalm 10:5
His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above, out of his sight. Therefore defieth he all his enemies.
Psalm 55:23
But as for them, thou, O God, shalt bring them into the pit of destruction. The bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days. Nevertheless, my trust shall be in thee, O LORD.
Psalm 73:18-20
Namely, how thou hast set them in a slippery places, that thou mayest cast them down headlong and destroy them.
Proverbs 1:27
even when the thing that ye be afraid of, falleth in suddenly like a storm, and your misery like a tempest: yea, when trouble and heaviness cometh upon you.
Proverbs 14:32
The ungodly is afraid of every peril; but the righteous hath a good hope even in death.
Isaiah 17:13
Even like many waters shall the people rage: God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and vanish away like the dust with the wind upon a hill, and as the whirlwind through a storm.
Isaiah 40:24
so that they be not planted, nor sown again, neither their stock rooted again in the earth? For as soon as he bloweth upon them, they wither and fade away, like the straw in a whirlwind.
Jeremiah 23:19
Behold, the stormy weather of the LORD - that is, his indignation - shall go forth, and shall fall down upon the head of the ungodly.