Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Psalms 58:9
he shall take them away as with a whirlwind—literally, "blow him (them) away."
both living . . . wrath—literally, "as the living" or fresh as the heated or burning—that is, thorns—all easily blown away, so easily and quickly the wicked. The figure of the "snail" perhaps alludes to its loss of saliva when moving. Though obscure in its clauses, the general sense of the passage is clear.
Psalms 58:8-9
Other figures of this utter ruin; the last denoting rapidity. In a shorter time than pots feel the heat of thorns on fire—
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