Parallel Verses
Holman Bible
whether green or burning—
He will sweep them away.
New American Standard Bible
He will
King James Version
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
International Standard Version
Before your clay pots are placed on a fire of burning thorns whether green or ablaze wrath will sweep them away like a storm.
A Conservative Version
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
American Standard Version
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
Amplified
Before your cooking pots can feel the fire of thorns [burning under them as fuel],
He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.
Bible in Basic English
Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.
Darby Translation
Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, they shall be whirled away.
Julia Smith Translation
Before your pots shall perceive the thorn, as living, as in wrath, he will sweep him away.
King James 2000
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Before your pots can feel [the heat of] a thornbush, whether green [or] {dry}, he will sweep it away.
Modern King James verseion
Before your pots can feel the thorns, whether green or glowing, He shall sweep it away.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
As a green thorn kindled with fire goeth out before your pots be made hot; even so, let a furious rage bring him to nought.
NET Bible
Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.
New Heart English Bible
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
The Emphasized Bible
Before your kettles can perceive the kindled bramble, Be he green or be he withered, he shall be swept away.
Webster
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
World English Bible
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns, he will sweep away the green and the burning alike.
Youngs Literal Translation
Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
Themes
Meteorology » Whirlwind » General references to
Whirlwind » Illustrative of the » Sudden destruction of the wicked
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 58:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Cry Against Injustice
8
like a woman’s miscarried child,
they will not see the sun.
whether green or burning—
He will sweep them away.
when he sees the retribution;
he will wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 118:12
they were extinguished like a fire among thorns;
in the name of Yahweh I destroyed them.
Proverbs 10:25
the wicked are no more,
but the righteous are secure forever.
Ecclesiastes 7:6
so is the laughter of the fool.
This too is futile.
Numbers 16:30
But if the Lord brings about something unprecedented, and the ground opens its mouth and swallows them along with all that belongs to them so that they go down alive into Sheol, then you will know that these men have despised the Lord.”
Job 18:18
and chased from the inhabited world.
Job 20:5-29
and the happiness of the godless has lasted only a moment?
Job 27:21
it carries him away from his place.
Psalm 10:2
In arrogance the wicked relentlessly pursue the afflicted;
let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.
Psalm 10:5
Your lofty judgments are beyond his sight;
he scoffs at all his adversaries.
Psalm 55:23
to the Pit of destruction;
men of bloodshed and treachery
will not live out half their days.
But I will trust in You.
Psalm 73:18-20
You make them fall into ruin.
Proverbs 1:27
and your calamity comes like a whirlwind,
when trouble and stress overcome you.
Proverbs 14:32
but the righteous one has a refuge in his death.
Isaiah 17:13
He rebukes them, and they flee far away,
driven before the wind like chaff on the hills
and like tumbleweeds before a gale.
Isaiah 40:24
their stem hardly takes root in the ground
when He blows on them and they wither,
and a whirlwind carries them away like stubble.
Jeremiah 23:19
Wrath has gone out,
a whirling storm.
It will whirl about the heads of the wicked.