Psalms 58:7
Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
KJV
Convertentur ad vesperam, et famem patientur ut canes : et circuibunt civitatem.
Vulgate
ἐπιστρέψουσιν εἰς ἑσπέραν καὶ λιμώξουσιν ὡς κύων, καὶ κυκλώσουσιν πόλιν.
LXX
Let them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
ASV
אֱֽלֹהִ֗ים הֲרָס שִׁנֵּ֥י/מוֹ בְּ/פִ֑י/מוֹ מַלְתְּע֥וֹת כְּ֝פִירִ֗ים נְתֹ֣ץ יְהוָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
8 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
הוּ
hv
verb · 42×
ו
v
noun · 55×
י
y
noun · 496×
יְהוָ֖ה
yhvh
proper_noun · 6455×
ךָ
k
noun · 2564×
כְּפִ֣יר
kpyr
noun · 31×
מַלְתְּע֥וֹת
mlt'vt
noun · 1×
נֶהֶרְס֖וּ
nhrsv
verb · 43×
Historic Christian voices
2 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 2Sam 14:14 — For we must needs die, and are as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again; neither doth God respect any person: yet doth he devise means, that his banished be not expelled from hi
- Exod 15:15 — Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.
- Isa 13:7 — Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
- Josh 2:9 — And she said unto the men, I know that the LORD hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.
- Josh 7:5 — And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and
- Ps 64:3 — Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
- Ps 64:3 — Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
- Ps 112:10 — The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
- Ps 112:10 — The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.