Notes on Book of Psalms (Author Bishop Richard Challoner (ed.))
58:9 Before your thorns, etc: That is, before your thorns grow up, so as to become strong briers, they shall be overtaken and consumed by divine justice, swallowing them up, as it were, alive in his wrath.
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