Psalms 58:9
“Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.”
Psalms 58:9 — King James Version
Verse 9 of 11 in Psalms chapter 58 — King James Version. Read it in context below, with maps, timelines and thematic connections beside the text.
Psalms 58:9 in other translations
- World English Bible
- “Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away 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.”
Psalms 58 — full chapter (King James Version)
Do ye indeed speak , O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men? Yea, in heart ye work wickedness; ye weigh the violence of your hands in the earth. The wicked are estranged from the womb: they go astray as soon as they be born, speaking lies. Their poison is like the poison of a : they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear; Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD. Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces. As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun. Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked. So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.