Psalms 58:8 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 58:8

Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

BSB

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ASV

Let them be as a snail which melteth and passeth away, Like the untimely birth of a woman, that hath not seen the sun.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Gill

1697–1771

Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)

As a snail which melteth, let everyone of them pass away,.... As a snail when it comes out of its shell liquefies, drops its moisture, and with it makes a "path", from whence it has its name שבלול, in the Hebrew language; and so the Targum here, "as the snail moistens its way;'' which moistness it gradually exhausts, and melts away, and dies: so the psalmist prays that everyone of his enemies might die in like manner.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

We may, in faith, pray against the designs of the church's enemies, as the prophet does ( Hos. ix. 14 , Give them, O Lord! what wilt thou give them? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts ), which explains this prayer of the psalmist.

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 3 (1872)

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away. As the snail makes its own way by its slime, and so dissolves as it goes, or as its shell is often found empty, as though the inhabitant had melted away, so shall the malicious eat out their own strength while they proceed upon their malevolent designs, and shall themselves disappear. To destroy himself by envy and chagrin is the portion of the ill disposed. Like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כְּמ֣וֹ	ke.Mo	like	H3644 →
שַׁ֭בְּלוּל	She.be.lul	a snail	H7642 →
תֶּ֣מֶס	Te.mes	[which] melting away	H8557 →
יַהֲלֹ֑ךְ	ya.ha.Lokh	it goes	H1980 →
נֵ֥פֶל	Ne.fel	a miscarriage of	H5309 →
אֵ֝֗שֶׁת	'E.shet	a woman	H802 →
בַּל־	bal-	<of> [which] not	H1077 →
חָ֥זוּ	Cha.zu	they have seen	H2372 →
שָֽׁמֶשׁ׃	Sha.mesh	[the] sun	H8121 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will never pass away.
leads to
- Isaiah 40:8
  The grass withers and the flowers fall, but the word of our God stands forever.”
- 1 Peter 1:25
  but the word of the Lord stands forever.” And this is the word that was proclaimed to you.
- Numbers 23:19
  God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
- Isaiah 55:11
  so My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
- Matthew 5:18
  For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen, will disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished.
Through
James 1:10
But the one who is rich should exult in his low position, because he will pass away like a flower of the field.
leads to
- 1 Peter 1:24
  For, “All flesh is like grass, and all its glory like the flowers of the field; the grass withers and the flowers fall,
- 1 John 2:17
  The world is passing away, along with its desires; but whoever does the will of God remains forever.
- Job 14:2
  Like a flower, he comes forth, then withers away; like a fleeting shadow, he does not endure.

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Psalms

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Where the connections lead

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The walk

Related verses

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