Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 58:9
Before — Before your pots can be heated. Take them — Violently and irresistibly. Living — Alive, as he did Korah.
Before — Before your pots can be heated. Take them — Violently and irresistibly. Living — Alive, as he did Korah.
Verse Psalms 58:9. _BEFORE YOUR POTS CAN FEEL THE THORNS_] Ye shall be destroyed with a sudden destruction. From the time that the fire of God's wrath is kindled about you, it will be but as a moment...
BEFORE YOUR POTS CAN FEEL THE THORNS - The word “thorns” here - אטד _'âṭâd_ - refers to what is called “Christ’s thorn,” the southern buckthorn. “Gesenius.” The fire made of such thorns when dry wo...
Psalms 58 A Judgment Psalm __ 1. Why God must judge (Psalms 58:1) 2. The judgment executed (Psalms 58:6) “Do ye of a truth in silence speak righteousness?” (literal rendering of the first verse)....
LVIII. A PRAYER FOR VENGEANCE ON UNRIGHTEOUS JUDGES. This Ps. is closely allied to Psalms 82. The reproaches in Psalms 58:3, where the enemies of the Psalmist are said to have gone astray from the wom...
THE THORNS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6, for the fire caused by them (Ecclesiastes 7:6)....
Since they are thus obstinately and incurably evil, nothing remains but that they should be deprived of their power to hurt or altogether destroyed....
The general sense of the verse is clear, though the second line is extremely obscure and possibly corrupt. The first line certainly means, _Before your pots can feel the thorns_(possibly a proverbial...
BEFORE YOUR POTS CAN FEEL THE THORNS— _Sooner than the bramble can heat your pots, let God's wrath, like a stormy wind, sweep them away._ See Bishop Hare and Green. The author of the _Observations_ re...
PSALMS 58 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Significant Warning to Corrupt Judges. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 58:1-5, Corrupt Judges Apostrophised, Described in their Evil Doings and Training, in the Harm they D...
_BEFORE YOUR POTS CAN FEEL THE THORNS, HE SHALL TAKE THEM AWAY AS WITH A WHIRLWIND, BOTH LIVING, AND IN HIS WRATH._ Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind,...
HE SHALL TAKE, etc.] Read, 'While the flesh is still raw wrath shall sweep them away like a whirlwind.' Flesh is about to be cooked in a pot, but almost before the fire has kindled a whirlwind scatter...
This Ps. denounces the wickedness of unjust and oppressive judges, and prays, in a series of powerful metaphors, for their destruction, in order that righteousness may be vindicated, and God exalted a...
PSALMS 42:72 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ Words in boxes are from the Bible. Words marked with a *star are described in the word list at the end. The translated Bible text has yet to go through Advanced Che...
BEFORE. — The figure in this difficult verse is generally intelligible, though the text as it stands resists all attempts to translate it. As in the preceding images, it must convey the idea of aborti...
_[Psalms 58:10]_ בְּ טֶ֤רֶם יָבִ֣ינוּ סִּֽירֹתֵיכֶ֣ם אָטָ֑ד...
Psalms 58:1 THIS psalmist's fiery indignation against unjust judges and evil-doers generally is not kindled by personal wrongs. The psalm comes hot from a heart lacerated by the sight of widespread co...
“THERE IS A GOD THAT JUDGETH” Psalms 58:1 This psalm is launched against wicked rulers. It may have been occasioned by the attitude of Abner and others of Saul's party, who accounted David as a rebe...
This is a fine setting forth of the certainty of the judgment of God against wickedness. The psalmist declares its reason (verses Psa 58:1-5), its process (verses Psa 58:6-9), and its effect (verses t...
(g) Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath. (g) As flesh is taken raw out of the pot before the water boils: so he desires...
_Laugh. Permitting them to become ridiculous. (Calmet)_...
This appeal to God comes in very suitably after what was before observed. If we accept the expressions as prayers for grace, or the destruction of the irrecoverable foes of Christ, they are very stron...
_FAITH IN RIGHTEOUSNESS_ I. THE THRONE OF INIQUITY (Psalms 58:1). II. THE THRONE OF GOD (Psalms 58:6). III. THE SPECTACLE OF JUSTICE (Psalms 58:10). ILLUSTRATIONS (1) ‘Not
9._Before your pots can feel the fire of your thorns. _Some obscurity attaches to this verse, arising partly from the perplexed construction, and partly from the words being susceptible of a double me...
Psalms 58. All righteousness was silent in Israel. The wicked were such and nought else. The godly man looks for judgment on them, for, let favor be shown to them, they will not learn uprightness. In...
BEFORE YOUR POTS CAN FEEL THE THORNS,.... Which is soon done; for as dry thorns make a great blaze, so they give a quick heat; the pots soon feel them, or the water in them soon receives heat from the...
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in [his] wrath. Ver. 9. _Before your pots can feel the thorns, &c._] Of this text we may say, as on...
_Before your pots can feel the thorns_ That is, the heat of a fire of thorns made under them, which they soon do, as it is a quick fire, and burns violently while it lasts; _he shall take them away_ N...
Before your pots can feel the thorns, namely, the heat of the burning thorns used as fuel by caravans, HE SHALL TAKE THEM AWAY AS WITH A WHIRLWIND, with a sudden and unexpected destruction, BOTH LIVIN...
A CRY FOR VENGEANCE UPON THE SUBVERTERS OF RIGHT. To the chief musician, Al-taschith, to be sung to the same melody as the preceding psalm, Michtam, a poem in epigrammatic form, of David....
BOTH LIVING, AND IN HIS WRATH: _ Heb._ as living, as wrath...
6-11 David prayed that the enemies of God's church and people might be disabled to do further mischief. We may, in faith, pray against the designs of the enemies of the church. He foretells their rui...
FEEL THE THORNS, i.e. the heat of the fire kindled by the thorns put under them for that purpose; before your pots can be thoroughly heated. TAKE THEM AWAY, to wit, mine enemies; whose sudden destruct...
Psalms 58:9 pots H5518 feel H995 (H8799) thorns H329 whirlwind H8175 (H8799) living H2416 wrath H2740 th
DAVID CALLS ON GOD TO DEAL WITH THE UNRIGHTEOUS AS THEY DESERVE (PSALMS 58:6). In five more vivid illustrations David calls on God to deal with the unrighteous, followed by a sixth by which he assures...
CONTENTS: Prayer for the defeat of ungodly men. CHARACTERS: God, David. CONCLUSION: However wicked people may prosper and bid defiance to divine justice, they will eventually learn that there is a G...
Psalms 58:4. _The deaf adder,_ which stops her ears by putting one ear to the ground, and forcing her tail into the other. Very many of the ancient Greek and Latin writers mention the practice of cert...
_Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation?_ MAN IN MANY ASPECTS I. The character of depraved men portrayed. 1. Unrighteous in judgment. 2. Wrong in heart. 3. Violent in the treatment of m...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 58:1. This is a community lament that God’s people sing when they are confronted with injustice among their own rulers. Singing this in worship (1) helps the faithful to pra...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—“To the Chief Musician, Al-taschith_.” see introduction to Psalms 57. “_Michtam of David_.” See Introduction to Psalms 56. Moll: “This complaint respecting domestic admin...
EXPOSITION A PSALM of condemnation on unrighteous judges. Some suppose the judges to be superhuman beings, entrusted with the government of the earth (Cheyne). Others suggest heathen rulers of Israel,...
Psa 58:1-11 is a prayer of David. I would not want to be one of David's enemies because of his prayers. Do you indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do you judge uprightly, O you sons of men? Y...
Ecclesiastes 7:6; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 40:24; Jeremiah 23:19; Job 1