Psalms 58:9

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Before your pots can feel{H8799)} the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind{H8799)}, both living, and in his wrath.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

‫כְּמ֣וֹ שַׁ֭בְּלוּל תֶּ֣מֶס יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ נֵ֥פֶל אֵ֝֗שֶׁת בַּל־חָ֥זוּ שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃‬

Transliteration

kəmô šabbəlûl temes yahălōk nēpel ʾēšet bal-ḥāzû šāmeš

Grammar Details

*kəmô*: preposition - like/as
*šabbəlûl*: masculine singular noun - snail
*temes*: masculine singular noun - melting/dissolving
*yahălōk*: qal 3ms imperfect - it goes/moves
*nēpel*: masculine singular noun - miscarriage/abortion/untimely birth
*ʾēšet*: feminine singular construct noun - woman of/wife of
*bal*: negative particle - not
*ḥāzû*: qal 3cp perfect - they have seen
*šāmeš*: feminine singular noun - sun

Word Meanings

*šabbəlûl*: snail/slug
*temes*: melting/dissolving/slime
*nēpel*: miscarriage/abortion/stillborn child
*ʾēšet*: woman of/wife of
*bal*: not/never (poetic negative)
*šāmeš*: sun/sunlight

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Referenced Verses

Ps 118:12 : 12 They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: for in the name of the LORD I will destroy them.
Prov 10:25 : 25 As the whirlwind passeth, so is the wicked no more: but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.
Eccl 7:6 : 6 For as the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of the fool: this also is vanity.
Isa 17:13 : 13 The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
Isa 40:24 : 24 Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.
Jer 23:19 : 19 Behold, a whirlwind of the LORD is gone forth in fury, even a grievous whirlwind: it shall fall grievously upon the head of the wicked.
Prov 14:32 : 32 The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.
Prov 1:27 : 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
Num 16:30 : 30 But if the LORD make a new thing, and the earth open her mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain unto them, and they go down quick into the pit; then ye shall understand that these men have provoked the LORD.
Job 18:18 : 18 He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.
Job 20:5-9 : 5 That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment? 6 Though his excellency mount up to the heavens, and his head reach unto the clouds; 7 Yet he shall perish for ever like his own dung: they which have seen him shall say, Where is he? 8 He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night. 9 The eye also which saw him shall see him no more; neither shall his place any more behold him. 10 His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods. 11 His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust. 12 Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth, though he hide it under his tongue; 13 Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth: 14 Yet his meat in his bowels is turned, it is the gall of asps within him. 15 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. 16 He shall suck the poison of asps: the viper's tongue shall slay him. 17 He shall not see the rivers, the floods, the brooks of honey and butter. 18 That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein. 19 Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; 20 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired. 21 There shall none of his meat be left; therefore shall no man look for his goods. 22 In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: every hand of the wicked shall come upon him. 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon, and the bow of steel shall strike him through. 25 It is drawn, and cometh out of the body; yea, the glittering sword cometh out of his gall: terrors are upon him. 26 All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. 27 The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him. 28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath. 29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Job 27:21 : 21 The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
Ps 10:2 : 2 The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
Ps 10:5 : 5 His ways are always grievous; thy judgments are far above out of his sight: as for all his enemies, he puffeth at them.
Ps 55:23 : 23 But thou, O God, shalt bring them down{H8686)} into the pit of destruction: bloody and deceitful men shall not live out half{H8799)} their days; but I will trust{H8799)} in thee.
Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Surely thou didst set{H8799)} them in slippery places: thou castedst them down{H8689)} into destruction. 19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly{H8804)} consumed{H8804)} with terrors. 20 As a dream when one awaketh{H8687)}; so, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise{H8799)} their image.

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