Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.

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.

Context Readings

A Cry Against Injustice

8 As a snail that melteth he goeth on, As an untimely birth of a woman, They have not seen the sun. 9 Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away. 10 The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.

Cross References

Psalm 118:12

They compassed me about as bees, They have been extinguished as a fire of thorns, In the name of Jehovah I surely cut them off.

Proverbs 10:25

As the passing by of a hurricane, So the wicked is not, And the righteous is a foundation age-during.

Ecclesiastes 7:6

For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So is the laughter of a fool, even this is vanity.

Numbers 16:30

and if a strange thing Jehovah do, and the ground hath opened her mouth and swallowed them, and all that they have, and they have gone down alive to Sheol -- then ye have known that these men have despised Jehovah.'

Job 18:18

They thrust him from light unto darkness, And from the habitable earth cast him out.

Job 20:5-29

That the singing of the wicked is short, And the joy of the profane for a moment,

Job 27:21

Take him up doth an east wind, and he goeth, And it frighteneth him from his place,

Psalm 10:2

Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.

Psalm 10:5

Pain do his ways at all times, On high are Thy judgments before him, All his adversaries -- he puffeth at them.

Psalm 55:23

And Thou, O God, dost bring them down To a pit of destruction, Men of blood and deceit reach not to half their days, And I -- I do trust in Thee!

Psalm 73:18-20

Only, in slippery places Thou dost set them, Thou hast caused them to fall to desolations.

Proverbs 1:27

When your fear cometh as destruction, And your calamity as a hurricane doth come, When on you come adversity and distress.

Proverbs 14:32

In his wickedness is the wicked driven away, And trustful in his death is the righteous.

Isaiah 17:13

Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.

Isaiah 40:24

Yea, they have not been planted, Yea, they have not been sown, Yea, not taking root in the earth is their stock, And also He hath blown upon them, and they wither, And a whirlwind as stubble taketh them away.

Jeremiah 23:19

Lo, a whirlwind of Jehovah -- Fury hath gone out, even a piercing whirlwind, On the head of the wicked it stayeth.

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