Psalms 58:9
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.”
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“Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.”
King James Version · Public Domain“Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Psalms 58:9 — 17 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Numbers 16:30But 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.”
- Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- Job 18:18He is driven from light into darkness and is chased from the inhabited world.
- Job 20:5the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
- Job 27:21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
- Psalms 10:2In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
- Psalms 10:5He is secure in his ways at all times; Your lofty judgments are far from him; he sneers at all his foes.
- Psalms 55:23But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
- Psalms 73:18Surely You set them on slick ground; You cast them down into ruin.
- Psalms 118:12They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Proverbs 1:27when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
- Proverbs 10:25When the whirlwind passes, the wicked are no more, but the righteous are secure forever.
- Proverbs 14:32The wicked man is thrown down by his own sin, but the righteous man has a refuge even in death.
- Ecclesiastes 7:6For like the crackling of thorns under the pot, so is the laughter of the fool. This too is futile.
- Isaiah 17:13The 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.
- Isaiah 40:24No 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.
- Jeremiah 23:19Behold, the storm of the LORD has gone out with fury, a whirlwind swirling down upon the heads of the wicked.
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