King James Version
Psalms 58:7 in the King James Version says “Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in p...” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 58 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“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.”
Psalms 58:7 · KJV
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely. charming: or, be the charmer never so cunning
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O LORD.
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.
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath. both: Heb. as living as wrath
KJV Study — Public Domain
“which run continually”
H1980to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
“when he bendeth”
H1869to tread; by implication, to walk; also to string a bow (by treading on it in bending)
“his bow to shoot his arrows”
H2671properly, a piercer, i.e., an arrow; by implication, a wound; figuratively, (of god) thunder-bolt; the shaft of a spear
“let them be as cut in pieces”
H4135to cut short, i.e., curtail (specifically the prepuce, i.e., to circumcise); by implication, to blunt; figuratively, to destroy
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