Parallel Verses

World English Bible

Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.

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.

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 Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun. 9 Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away 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 surrounded me like bees. They are quenched like the burning thorns. In the name of Yahweh I cut them off.

Proverbs 10:25

When the whirlwind passes, the wicked is no more; but the righteous stand firm forever.

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 Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh."

Job 18:18

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

Job 20:5-29

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

Job 27:21

The east wind carries him away, and he departs. It sweeps him out of his place.

Psalm 10:2

In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

Psalm 10:5

His ways are prosperous at all times. He is haughty, and your laws are far from his sight. As for all his adversaries, he sneers at them.

Psalm 55:23

But you, God, will bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloodthirsty and deceitful men shall not live out half their days, but I will trust in you. For the Chief Musician. To the tune of "Silent Dove in Distant Lands." A poem by David, when the Philistines seized him in Gath.

Psalm 73:18-20

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

Proverbs 1:27

when calamity overtakes you like a storm, when your disaster comes on like a whirlwind; when distress and anguish come on you.

Proverbs 14:32

The wicked is brought down in his calamity, but in death, the righteous has a refuge.

Isaiah 17:13

The nations will rush like the rushing of many waters: but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far off, and will be chased like the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the storm.

Isaiah 40:24

They are planted scarcely. They are sown scarcely. Their stock has scarcely taken root in the ground. He merely blows on them, and they wither, and the whirlwind takes them away as stubble.

Jeremiah 23:19

Behold, the storm of Yahweh, [even his] wrath, is gone forth, yes, a whirling storm: it shall burst on the head of the wicked.

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