Psalm 58:9 {57:10}
Good News Translation
Before they know it, they are cut down like weeds; in his fierce anger God will blow them away while they are still living.

New Revised Standard Version
Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!

Contemporary English Version
Wipe them out quicker than a pot can be heated by setting thorns on fire.

New American Bible
Suddenly, like brambles or thistles, have the whirlwind snatch them away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.

thorns

Psalm 118:12 They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.

Ecclesiastes 7:6 For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.

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Psalm 10:15 Break thou the arm of the sinner and of the malignant: his sin shall be sought, and shall not be found.

Psalm 55:23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down into the pit of destruction. Bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half their days; but I will trust in thee, O Lord.

Psalm 73:18-20 But indeed for deceits thou hast put it to them: when they were lifted up thou hast cast them down. . . .

Job 18:18 He shall drive him out of light into darkness, and shall remove him out of the world.

Job 20:5 That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

Proverbs 1:27 Then shall they call upon me, and I will not hear: they shall rise in the morning, and shall not find me:

Proverbs 10:25 As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that sent him.

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked man shall be driven out in his wickedness: but the just hath hope in his death.

Isaiah 17:13 Nations shall make a noise like the noise of waters overflowing, but he shall rebuke him, and he shall flee far off: and he shall be carried away as the dust of the mountains before the wind, and as a whirlwind before a tempest.

Isaiah 40:24 And surely their stock was neither planted, nor sown, nor rooted in the earth: suddenly he hath blown upon them, and they are withered, and a whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Jeremiah 23:19 Behold the whirlwind of the Lord's indignation shall come forth, and a tempest shall break out and come upon the head of the wicked.

both living [heb.

Numbers 16:30 But if the Lord do a new thing, and the earth opening her mouth swallow them down, and all things that belong to them, and they go down alive into hell, you shall know that they have blasphemed the Lord.

Context
God Judges the Earth
8Like wax that melteth they shall be taken away: fire hath fallen on them, and they shall not see the sun. 9Before your thorns could know the brier; he swalloweth them up, as alive, in his wrath.10The just shall rejoice when he shall see the revenge: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner.…
Cross References
Job 27:21
A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

Psalm 83:15
So shalt thou pursue them with thy tempest: and shalt trouble them in thy wrath.

Psalm 118:12
They surrounded me like bees, and they burned like fire among thorns: and in the name of the Lord I was revenged on them.

Proverbs 10:25
As vinegar to the teeth, and smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that sent him.

Ecclesiastes 7:6
For as the crackling of thorns burning under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool: now this also is vanity.

Psalm 58:8
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