Psalms 58:9

“Before your pots can feel the thorns, etc.] Which is soon done; for as dry thorns make a great blaze, so they give a quick heat; the pots soon feel them, or the water in them soon receives heat from them. From imprecations the psalmist proceeds to prophesy, and foretells the sudden destruction of wicked men, which would be before a pot could be heated with a blaze of thorns. The Targum is, “before the wicked become tender, they harden as the thorn:” that is, they never become tender, or have any tender consciences, but are hardened in sin from their infancy. Some render the words, “before your thorns grow up to a brier” or “bramble” f781; little thorns become great ones, tender thorns hard…”

“he shall take them away as with a whirlwind--literally, "blow him (them) away." both living . . . wrath--literally, "as the living" or fresh as the heated or burning--that is, thorns--all easily blown away, so easily and quickly the wicked. The figure of the "snail" perhaps alludes to its loss of saliva when moving. Though obscure in its clauses, the general sense of the passage is clear.”

“Before your pots can feel the thorns - The word “thorns” here - אטד 'âṭâd - refers to what is called “Christ’s thorn,” the southern buckthorn. “Gesenius.” The fire made of such thorns when dry would be quick and rapid, and water would be soon heated by it. The idea is, that what is here referred to would occur “quickly” - sooner than the most rapid and intense fire could make an impression on a kettle and its contents. The destruction of the wicked would be, as it were, instantaneous. The following quotation from Prof. Hackitt (Illustrations of Scripture, p. 135) will explain this passage: “A species of thorn, now very common near Jerusalem, bears the name of Spina Christi, or Christ’s…”

“Before - Before your pots can be heated. Take them - Violently and irresistibly. Living - Alive, as he did Korah. Psalms 58:10”

“58:9-10 God’s judgment will come suddenly. The certainty of vindication brings joy to the godly.”

“thorns: Psa 118:12; Ecc 7:6 as: Psa 10:2, Psa 10:5, Psa 55:23, Psa 73:18-20; Job 18:18, 20:5-29; Pro 1:27, Pro 10:25, Pro 14:32; Isa 17:13, Isa 40:24; Jer 23:19 both living: etc. Heb. as living as wrath, Num 16:30 Psalms 58:10”