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.In other versions
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
ASV
Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
BBE
Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, -- they shall be whirled away.
DBY
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, He will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
WEB
Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
YLT
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
ENG
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.
WBT
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns— whether green or dry— He will sweep them away.
BSB
In context
7Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
8As 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.
9Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
10The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
11So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.
