Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 58:9

9. Before your pots can feel the thorns , he shall take them away as with a whirlwind , both. living, and in his wrath .

(i. e.) The heat of the Fire kindled by the Thorns put under them for that purpose: Before your Pots can be thoroughly heated.

To wit, mine Enemies: Whose sudden Destruction, he describes under this similitude.

(i. e.) Violently and irresistibly.

Heb. as Living (i. e. Alive, as he did Korah, Numb. 16. the Particle, as, being here not a Note of similitude, but of Truth or Asseveration, as it is, Ioh. 1: 14. and oft elsewhere, as hath been noted:) as in (which Proposition is frequently understood) Urath, (i. e.) As a Man moved with great Wrath, destroys his Enemy without Mercy, and is ready to devour him alive, if it were possible: Or, both that which is raw (as the Hebrew word Chai signifies, Levit. 13. 16. 1 Sam. 2. 15. to wit, the raw Flesh, which is supposed to be put into the Pot, that it may be boyled) and the burning Fire. There is indeed great Variety of Construction, and Interpretation of these Hebrew words; which is not strange, especially considering the Conciseness of the Hebrew Language, and that this is a proverbial Speech; nor is it of any great importance, because it is not in any great point of Faith, and because the Sence of it is agreed, the onely difference being about the manner and ground of the Phrase. The learned Reader may see more upon this place, in my Latin Synopsis.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 word] as [illegible: 1 word] wrath.