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Psalms 58:9 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Psalms 58:9Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Psalms 58:99 words
HebrewMeaning
כְּמ֣וֹkəmwō
likepronH3644
as (it were · well as) · in comparison of · like (as ···
שַׁ֭בְּלוּלšabəlwl
a snailnounH7642
תֶּ֣מֶסtemes
which melting awaynounH8557
יַהֲלֹ֑ךְyahălōkə
it goesverbH1980
apace · behave · come · continually ···
נֵ֥פֶלnēpel
a miscarriage ofnounH5309
אֵ֝֗שֶׁתʾēšet
a womannounH802
each · every · female · many ···
בַּלbal
which notparticleH1077
neither · no · none · not ···
חָ֥זוּḥāzw
they have seenverbH2372
look · prophesy · provide · see
שָֽׁמֶשׁšāmeš
the sunnounH8121
east side · west · window. See also
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 58:9

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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