Verse Comparison: Psalms 58:9
American Standard Version
Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will take them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
Amplified® Bible
Before your pots can feel the thorns [that are placed under them for fuel], He will take them away as with a whirlwind, the green and the burning ones alike.
Contemporary English Version
Wipe them out quicker than a pot can be heated by setting thorns on fire.
Darby English Version
Before your pots feel the thorns, green or burning, -- they shall be whirled away.
Good News Bible
Before they know it, they are cut down like weeds; in his fierce anger God will blow them away while they are still living.
King James Version
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
New American Standard Bible
Before your pots can feel {the fire of} thorns He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
New International Version
Before your pots can feel the heat of the thorns—
whether they be green or dry—the wicked will be swept away.
New King James Version
Before your pots can feel the burning thorns,
He shall take them away as with a whirlwind,
As in His living and burning wrath.
N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
Before your pots can feel the fire of thorns He will sweep them away with a whirlwind, the green and the burning alike.
Revised Standard Version
Sooner than your pots can feel the heat of thorns, whether green or ablaze, may he sweep them away!
Young's Literal Translation
Before your pots discern the bramble, As well the raw as the heated He whirleth away.
