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Psalms 58:8 — King James Version← Study notes

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.


Psalms 58:8Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 58:810 words
HebrewMeaning
יִמָּאֲס֣וּyimāʾăsw
may they flowverbH3988
cast away · contemn · despise · disdain ···
כְמוֹkəmwō
likepronH3644
as (it were · well as) · in comparison of · like (as ···
מַ֭יִםmayim
watersnounH4325
piss · water(-ing · (-course · -flood ···
יִתְהַלְּכוּyitəhaləkw
which they go aboutverbH1980
apace · behave · come · continually ···
לָ֑/מוֹlāmwō
pron
יִדְרֹ֥ךְyidərōkə
may he bendverbH1869
bend · come · draw · go ···
חצ/וḥṣw
arrownounH2671
archer · dart · shaft · staff ···
חִ֝צָּ֗י/וḥiṣāyw
arrownounH2671
archer · dart · shaft · staff ···
כְּמ֣וֹkəmwō
likepronH3644
as (it were · well as) · in comparison of · like (as ···
יִתְמֹלָֽלוּyitəmōlālw
let them be cut offverbH4135
selves) · cut down · destroy · must needs
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Psalms 58:8

1. The words which we have sung must be rather hearkened to by us, than proclaimed. For to all men as it were in an assemblage of mankind, the Truth cries, “If truly indeed justice ye speak, judge right things, you sons of men” Psalm 57:1. For to what unjust man is it not an easy thing to speak justice? Or what man if questioned about justice, when he has not a cause, would not easily answer what is just? Inasmuch as the hand of our Maker in our very hearts has written this…

Augustine · 4th century · Exposition on Psalm 58 (excerpt)
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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