A moment in scripture
Psalms 58:7
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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.
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The surrounding passage
- Psalms 58:5
Which will not hearken to the voice of charmers, charming never so wisely.
- Psalms 58:6
Break their teeth, O God, in their mouth: break out the great teeth of the young lions, O Lord.
- Psalms 58:8
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.
- Psalms 58:9
Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.