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 a snail that melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.
9
He will
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 118:12
They swarmed around me like bees, but they burned out as quickly as a brush fire; by the power of Jehovah I destroyed them.
Proverbs 10:25
The whirlwind passes and the wicked is no more. The righteous has 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 does something totally new, if the ground opens up, swallows them and everything that belongs to them, and they go down alive to their graves; then you will know that these men have treated Jehovah with contempt.
Job 18:18
He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.
Job 20:5-29
The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.
Job 27:21
The east wind carries him off. He is gone and it sweeps him out of his place.
Psalm 10:2
The wicked proudly persecutes the poor people. He will be caught in the schemes that he contrived.
Psalm 10:5
He always succeeds at what he does. Your judgments are beyond his understanding. He scoffs at all his opponents.
Psalm 55:23
But You, O God, will bring them down to the corruption of the grave. Men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in you.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely you set them in slippery places. You threw them down into destruction.
Proverbs 1:27
Trouble and distress will surround you like a whirlwind, like a great storm.
Proverbs 14:32
The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous has hope in his death.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations will rush like the raging of many waters. But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away. They will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, like a rolling dust before the whirlwind.
Isaiah 40:24
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner do they take root in the ground, than he blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like chaff.
Jeremiah 23:19
The storm of Jehovah vents his wrath. A whirling tempest will swirl down on the head of the wicked.