Psalm 58:9
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58:9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots,19
he20 will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.21
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- 19 Heb “before your pots perceive thorns.”
- 20 Apparently God (v. 6) is the subject of the verb here.
- 21 Heb “like living, like burning anger he will sweep it away.” The meaning of the text is unclear. The translation assumes that within the cooking metaphor (see the previous line) חַי (khay, “living”) refers here to raw meat (as in 1 Sam 2:15, where it modifies בָּשָׂר, basar, “flesh”) and that חָרוּן (kharun; which always refers to God’s “burning anger” elsewhere) here refers to food that is cooked. The pronominal suffix on the verb “sweep away” apparently refers back to the “thorns” of the preceding line. The image depicts swift and sudden judgment. Before the fire has been adequately kindled and all the meat cooked, the winds of judgment will sweep away everything in their path.
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ESVEnglish Standard Version
Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns,
whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
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NIVNew International Version (2011)
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns—
whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.
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CSBChristian Standard Bible
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns—
whether green or burning—
he will sweep them away.
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NLTNew Living Translation
God will sweep them away, both young and old,
faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.
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LEBThe Lexham English Bible
Before your pots can feel the heat of a thornbush,
whether green or dry, he will sweep it away.
Copyright 2012 Lexham Press
KJV 1900King James Version
Before your pots can feel the thorns,
He shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
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