Psalms 58:8

"Let them vanish like water that flows away. When they draw the bow, let their arrows be made blunt."

Key Reflection

This verse metaphorically prays for the enemies to disappear like water flowing away, symbolizing their temporary and fleeting nature. The request that their arrows be made blunt signifies a wish for their efforts against the speaker to fail or become ineffective.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away -Or rather, As the snail which melteth as it goes; that is, which leaves a slimy trail as it moves along, and thus melts away the more as it advances, until at length it dies. Gesenius, Lexicon. The allusion is to what seems to occur to the snail; it seems to melt or to be dissolved as it moves along; or seems to leave a part of itself in the slime which flows from it. Like the untimely birth of a woman -The Hebrew word means literally “that which falls from a woman;” and hence, the word is used to denote an abortion.

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