Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
David challenges his enemies with a piercing question: Do you yourselves not see the justice of my cause? When a man's innocence is evident enough to appeal to his very accusers, he stands on solid ground. He exposes their calumnies by demanding their own testimony to his integrity.
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Commenting on Psalm 58:1-11
Before your pots can feel the thorns. So sudden is the overthrow of the wicked, so great a failure is their life, that they never see joy. Their pot is put upon the hook to prepare a feast of joy, and the fuel is placed beneath, but before the thorns are lit, before any heat can be brought to bear upon the pot, yea, even...
Break their teeth so they cannot prey on others, as lions live by rapine. Let their arrows fall at their feet and miss the mark entirely. Let them waste away like a flood that soaks into the ground and vanishes, water spilled that cannot be gathered up again.
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Commenting on Psalm 58:6-11