◄ Psalm 58:7 {57:8} ►
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Good News Translation
May they disappear like water draining away; may they be crushed like weeds on a path.

New Revised Standard Version
Let them vanish like water that runs away; like grass let them be trodden down and wither.

Contemporary English Version
Make them disappear like leaking water, and make their arrows miss.

New American Bible
Make them vanish like water flowing away; trodden down, let them wither like grass.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.

Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 64:7,8 And God shall be exalted. The arrows of children are their wounds: . . .

Psalm 112:10 The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Exodus 15:15 Then were the princes of Edom troubled, trembling seized on the stout men of Moab: all the inhabitants of Chanaan became stiff.

Joshua 2:9-11 I know that the Lord hath given this land to you: for the dread of you is fallen upon us, and all the inhabitants of the land have lost all strength. . . .

Joshua 7:5 And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of them six and thirty men: and the enemies pursued them from the gate as far as Sabarim, and they slew them as they fled by the descent: and the heart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.

2 Samuel 17:10 And the most valiant man whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall melt for fear: for all the people of Israel know thy father to be a valiant man, and that all who are with him are valiant.

Isaiah 13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt,

Context
God Judges the Earth
…6God shall break in pieces their teeth in their mouth: the Lord shall break the grinders of the lions. 7They shall come to nothing, like water running down; he hath bent his bow till they be weakened.8Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun.…
Cross References
Joshua 2:11
And at the hearing these things, we were affrighted, and our heart fainted away, neither did there remain any spirit in us, at your coming in: for the Lord your God he is God in heaven above, and in the earth beneath.

Joshua 7:5
And were defeated by the men of the city of Hai, and there fell of them six and thirty men: and the enemies pursued them from the gate as far as Sabarim, and they slew them as they fled by the descent: and the heart of the people was struck with fear, and melted like water.

2 Samuel 14:14
We all die, and like waters that return no more, we fall down into the earth: neither will God have a soul to perish, but recalleth, meaning that he that is cast off should not altogether perish.

Psalm 64:3
For they have whetted their tongues like a sword; they have bent their bow a bitter thing,

Psalm 112:10
The wicked shall see, and shall be angry, he shall gnash with his teeth and pine away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.

Psalm 144:6
Send forth lightning, and thou shalt scatter them: shoot out thy arrows, and thou shalt trouble them.

Isaiah 13:7
Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt,

Ezekiel 21:7
And when they shall say to thee: Why mournest thou? thou shalt say: For that which I hear: because it cometh, and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be made feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and water shall run down every knee: behold it cometh, and it shall be done, saith the Lord God.

Psalm 58:6
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