Psalm 58:9

Translations

Modern

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.

Traditional

Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.

Literal

Before your pots can discern the thorn, as those living, as burning wrath He sweeps them away.

Latin

Priusquam intelligerent spinæ vestræ rhamnum, sicut viventes sic in ira absorbet eos.

Original

Hebrew

English

Before your pots can feel the burning thorns—whether green or dry—He will sweep them away.

Notes

Psalms 58:9–10

God’s judgment will come suddenly. The certainty of vindication brings joy to the godly.

Psalms 58:1–11

The administration of justice is a mark of good government. God expects nothing less from his people. The psalmist condemns Israel’s leaders for abusing their power, and he calls on the Lord to rain down his curses upon the wicked. The demonstration of divine justice will reassure the godly that God is just.

Psalms 51:1–65:13

These psalms of David share a common theme. They reflect on the experience of evil. In Psalm 51, the psalmist admits his wrongdoing and asks for God's forgiveness. Psalms 52–64 express sorrow over specific evils David faced. A song of praise (Psalm 65) brings David's laments to an end.

Theme notes and profiles

David

Related verses

Proverbs 10:25
When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
Psalm 118:12
They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
Ecclesiastes 7:6
For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
Jeremiah 23:19
Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations rage like the rush of many waters. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweeds before a gale.
Proverbs 1:27
…when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
Isaiah 40:24
No sooner are they planted, no sooner are they sown, no sooner have their stems taken root in the ground, than He blows on them and they wither, and a whirlwind sweeps them away like stubble.
Psalm 73:18–20
Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
Job 20:5–29
…the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Numbers 16:30
But if the LORD brings about something unprecedented, and the earth opens its mouth and swallows them and all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have treated the LORD with contempt.”
Psalm 10:5
He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
Job 27:21
The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.

Glossary

Al-Taschith Curse, Cursed David Green Michtam Miktam Music Psalms, Book of

Topics

Death of the Wicked Thorn used for Fuel Whirlwind: Illustrative of The: Sudden Destruction of the Wicked Wicked (People): Punishment of

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