Psalm 58:7-10
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
III
7 O God, smash the teeth in their mouths;
break the fangs of these lions, Lord!(A)
8 Make them vanish like water flowing away;(B)
trodden down, let them wither like grass.(C)
9 Let them dissolve like a snail that oozes away,[a]
like an untimely birth that never sees the sun.(D)
10 Suddenly, like brambles or thistles,
have the whirlwind snatch them away.(E)
Footnotes
- 58:9 A snail that oozes away: empty shells suggested to ancients that snails melted away as they left a slimy trail.
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