Before your pots can feel the thorns, he shall take them away as with a whirlwind, both living, and in his wrath.
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Gill's Exposition
Before your pots can feel the thorns,.... 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…
Barnes' Notes
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…
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Cambridge Bible
The general sense of the verse is clear, though the second line is extremely obscure and possibly corrupt. The first line certainly means, Before your pots can feel the thorns(possibly a proverbial…
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