Psalms 58:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let them be like an after-birth which is turned to water and comes to an end; like the fruit of a woman who gives birth before her time, let them not see the sun.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 3:16 : 16 Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.
  • Eccl 6:3 : 3 If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.
  • Jas 1:10 : 10 But the man of wealth, that he is made low; because like the flower of the grass he will come to his end.
  • Ps 37:35-36 : 35 I have seen the evil-doer in great power, covering the earth like a great tree. 36 But he came to an end, and there was no sign of him; I made a search for him and he was not there.

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  • Ps 58:9
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    9Before they are conscious of it, let them be cut down like thorns; let a strong wind take them away like waste growth.

  • Ps 129:6
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    6Let them be like the grass on the house-tops, which is dry before it comes to full growth.

  • Job 6:17-18
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    17Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.

    18The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.

  • Ps 68:2
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    2Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.

  • Job 4:20
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    20Between morning and evening they are completely broken; they come to an end for ever, and no one takes note.

  • Job 9:26
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    26They go rushing on like reed-boats, like an eagle dropping suddenly on its food.

  • Job 24:17-20
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    17For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.

    18They go quickly on the face of the waters; their heritage is cursed in the earth; the steps of the crusher of grapes are not turned to their vine-garden.

    19Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.

    20The public place of his town has no more knowledge of him, and his name has gone from the memory of men: he is rooted up like a dead tree.

  • Job 21:18
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    18How frequently are they as dry stems before the wind, or as grass taken away by the storm-wind?

  • Job 20:7-8
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    7Like the waste from his body he comes to an end for ever: those who have seen him say, Where is he?

    8He is gone like a dream, and is not seen again; he goes in flight like a vision of the night.

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • Job 3:8-9
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    8Let it be cursed by those who put a curse on the day; who are ready to make Leviathan awake.

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  • Ps 37:2
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    2For they will quickly be cut down like grass, and become dry like the green plants.

  • Ps 73:19
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    19How suddenly are they wasted! fears are the cause of their destruction.

  • Hos 13:3
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    3So they will be like the morning cloud, like the dew which goes early away, like the dust of the grain which the wind is driving out of the crushing-floor, like smoke going up from the fireplace.

  • Job 14:2
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    2He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

  • Ps 55:15
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    15Let the hand of death come on them suddenly, and let them go down living into the underworld; because evil is in their houses and in their hearts.

  • Ps 92:7
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    7When the sinners come up like the grass, and all the workers of evil do well for themselves, it is so that their end may be eternal destruction.

  • Ps 83:17
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    17Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction;

  • Jas 1:11
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    11For when the sun comes up with its burning heat, the grass gets dry and the grace of its form is gone with the falling flower; so the man of wealth comes to nothing in his ways.

  • Job 13:28
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    28Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.

  • Ps 112:10
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    8The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.

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    16Making their land a thing of wonder, causing sounds of surprise for ever; everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, shaking his head.

  • Nah 3:15
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    15There the fire will make you waste; you will be cut off by the sword: make yourself as great in number as the worms, as great in number as the locusts.

  • Ps 35:8
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    28Let their names be taken from the book of the living, let them not be numbered with the upright.

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    9By the breath of God destruction takes them, and by the wind of his wrath they are cut off.

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    13O my God, make them like the rolling dust; like dry stems before the wind.

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    12Let us overcome them living, like the underworld, and in their strength, as those who go down to death;

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    7By evil-doing they will not get free from punishment. In wrath, O God, let the peoples be made low.

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    16The wind goes over it and it is gone; and its place sees it no longer.

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    27This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.