the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Psalms 11:6
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He will rain down blazing coals and burning sulfur on the wicked, punishing them with scorching winds.
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares; fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
On the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
He will send hot coals and burning sulfur on the wicked. A whirlwind is what they will get.
May the Lord rain down burning coals and brimstone on the wicked! A whirlwind is what they deserve!
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest: [this shall be] the portion of their cup.
On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; Fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Upon the wicked (godless) He will rain coals of fire; Fire and brimstone and a dreadful scorching wind will be the portion of their cup [of doom].
Let him rain coals on the wicked; fire and sulfur and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
He schal reyne snaris on `synful men; fier, brymston, and the spirit of tempestis ben the part of the cuppe of hem.
On the wicked He will rain fiery coals and brimstone; a scorching wind will be their portion.
He will send fiery coals and flaming sulfur down on the wicked, and they will drink nothing but a scorching wind.
Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
On the evil-doer he will send down fire and flames, and a burning wind; with these will their cup be full.
He will rain hot coals down on the wicked, fire, sulfur and scorching wind will be what they get to drink.
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone; and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
He will make hot coals and burning sulfur fall like rain on the wicked. They will get nothing but a hot, burning wind.
Upon the wicked He will cause to rain coals; fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Upon the wicked hee shall raine snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
He will send down fire upon the sinful. Fire and sulphur and burning wind will be the cup they will drink.
On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and sulfur; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Vpon the wicked he shal raine snares, fire, and brimstone, and stormie tempest: this is the porcion of their cup.
Snares have come down upon the wicked like rain; fire and brimstone and a destructive tempest shall be the portion of their cup.
He sends down flaming coals and burning sulfur on the wicked; he punishes them with scorching winds.
He will rain upon the lawless live-coals, Fire and brimstone and a burning wind, are the portion of their cup.
(10-7) He shall rain snares upon sinners: fire and brimstone, and storms of winds, shall be the portion of their cup.
On the wicked he will rain coals of fire and brimstone; a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
Upon ye vngodly he wyl rayne snares, fire and brimstone: and tempestious stormes shalbe their portion to drinke.
He shall rain upon sinners snares, fire, and brimstone, and a stormy blast shall be the portion of their cup.
Let him rain burning coals and sulfur on the wicked;let a scorching wind be the portion in their cup.
On the wicked he will rain blazing coals; Fire, sulfur, and scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
He will rain coals on the wicked. Burning sulfur and scorching wind will be the portion of their cup.
He shall rain snares on the wicked; fire and brimstone and a scorching wind shall be the portion of their cup.
He poureth on the wicked snares, fire, and brimstone, And a horrible wind [is] the portion of their cup.
Vpon the vngodly he shal rayne snares, fyre, brymstone, storme and tempest: this rewarde shal they haue to drynke.
He will rain coals of fire upon the wicked, And brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.
Upon the wicked He will rain coals; Fire and brimstone and a burning wind Shall be the portion of their cup.
Upon the wicked He will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.
May He rain snares upon the wicked;Fire and brimstone and burning wind will be the portion of their cup.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Upon: Psalms 105:32, Genesis 19:24, Exodus 9:23, Exodus 9:24, Job 18:15, Job 20:23, Isaiah 24:17, Isaiah 24:18, Ezekiel 13:13, Ezekiel 38:22, Luke 17:29
snares: or, quick burning coals
an horrible: or, a burning
portion: Psalms 16:5, Genesis 43:34, 1 Samuel 1:4, 1 Samuel 9:23, Job 27:13-23
their: Psalms 75:8, Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:22, Jeremiah 25:15-17, Habakkuk 2:16, John 18:11
Reciprocal: Genesis 19:13 - Lord hath Exodus 34:7 - that will by no means clear the guilty Joshua 10:11 - the Lord Judges 9:56 - God rendered 2 Kings 19:7 - a blast Job 18:10 - snare Job 20:29 - the portion Job 22:10 - snares Job 27:21 - a storm Psalms 9:16 - wicked Psalms 18:8 - went Psalms 78:49 - cast Psalms 83:15 - General Psalms 119:53 - horror Psalms 140:10 - burning coals Proverbs 22:5 - Thorns Proverbs 24:20 - there Proverbs 29:6 - the transgression Ecclesiastes 9:12 - the sons Isaiah 3:11 - Woe Isaiah 8:14 - a snare Isaiah 33:14 - Who among us shall dwell with the Isaiah 34:9 - General Isaiah 66:15 - the Lord Jeremiah 13:25 - thy lot Jeremiah 48:43 - General Jeremiah 49:18 - in the Ezekiel 12:13 - My net Ezekiel 13:11 - there shall Ezekiel 30:15 - I will pour Luke 21:35 - as 1 Timothy 6:9 - snare Revelation 8:7 - hail Revelation 9:17 - brimstone Revelation 14:10 - drink Revelation 19:20 - burning
Cross-References
And the Lord God said, Behold, the man is become as one of us, to know good and evil: and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live for ever:
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
And the Lord smelled a sweet savour; and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
These are the three sons of Noah: and of them was the whole earth overspread.
And the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech.
And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
Go and cry unto the gods which ye have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your tribulation.
And it came to pass at noon, that Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud: for he is a god; either he is talking, or he is pursuing, or he is in a journey, or peradventure he sleepeth, and must be awaked.
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.
He hath shewed strength with his arm; he hath scattered the proud in the imagination of their hearts.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Upon the wicked,.... The wicked one, the man of sin, antichrist, and upon all that worship the beast and his image, on all persecutors, and upon all wicked men in general:
he shall rain snares, fire, and brimstone, and an horrible tempest; this will be in hell, as Jarchi observes. The allusion is to the Lord's raining fire and brimstone from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah, which was an example and emblem of eternal fire; see Genesis 19:24. For the beast and the false prophet, and all the antichristian party, and all wicked men, will have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. The phrases used express the dreadfulness and horribleness of their punishment; the suddenness, violence, and force, with which it will come; and the rise of it, it will be from heaven; God himself will rain this shower of wrath upon them, Job 20:23; nor will there be any escaping it, it will be inevitable: therefore "snares" are said to be "rained"; the wicked will be snared in the works of their own hands; they will be taken and held in the cords of their own sins; and full and deserved punishment will be inflicted on them, which will be very severe and terrible. All that is dreadful in a storm is here expressed, even in a storm of fire. The word rendered "snares" is by some thought to be the same with פחמים, "burning coals"; and may signify burning stones, hot thunderbolts; see Psalms 18:13; "fire" may signify lightning, with its dreadful flashes, and which burn and consume in an instant; and "brimstone" the nauseous scent and smell, which always attend lightning and thunder, as naturalists observe x: and the words for "an horrible tempest" signify a burning wind: so that they all serve to convey horrible ideas of the punishment of the wicked in hell. The Targum calls them "showers of vengeance";
[this shall be] the portion of their cup; which will be measured out to them in proportion to their sins, and which God, in righteous judgment, has appointed for them; and which they shall all drink of, and wring out the very dregs of it.
x Senecae Nat. Quaest. l. 2. c. 21, 53. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 35. c. 15.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Upon the wicked - Upon all the wicked.
He shall rain - He shall pour down as in a furious tempest.
Snares - It seems rather incongruous to speak of raining down “snares, “ - understanding by the word snares, as it is used with us, that which entangles, as the snares by which we catch a bird, or by which a wild animal is taken. Compare the notes at Job 18:8-10. The word used here, however, seems to refer to anything by which one is taken in his career or course, or is involved in difficulties; and the meaning is, that God would arrest or seize upon the wicked, as a wild beast is secured by the snares or the toils of the hunter. By their being sent down as in a “rain,” is denoted that such means of their arrest and punishment would exist in abundance, so that they could not escape.
Fire and brimstone - There is probably an allusion here to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Genesis 19:24. As those cities were eminent for their wickedness, and were destroyed on account of their guilt, they furnished an illustration of the manner in which God would treat the wicked in all future times. As they were destroyed on account of their wickedness, so will all the wicked be destroyed.
And an horrible tempest - As a furious blast of wind sweeps away houses and trees, spreading wide desolation, so will the wicked be swept away by the manifestation of the wrath of God.
This shall be the portion of their cup - That is, this shall be what they shall drink. See the note at Isaiah 51:17. The idea is, that the Lord holds out to them a cup for them to drink - a cup containing a deadly mixture. The allusion is to the mode of administering punishment by a poisonous draught - not an unfrequent mode of punishment in ancient times. The idea in the whole verse is, that the wicked would be destroyed, and that, therefore, there was nothing ultimately to be apprehended from them. God would protect his own friends, and would destroy all those that sought their hurt. In these circumstances the righteous should confide in him as their protector, and not “flee.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 11:6. Upon the wicked he shall rain — This is a manifest allusion to the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Snares — Judgments shall fall upon them suddenly and unawares.
Fire — Such as shall come immediately from God, and be inextinguishable.
Brimstone — Melted by the fire, for their drink! This shall be the portion of their cup.
A horrible tempest — רוח זלעפות ruach zilaphoth, "the spirit of terrors." Suffering much, and being threatened with more, they shall be filled with confusion and dismay. My old MS. has gost of stormis. See at the end. Psalms 11:7. Or, the blast of destructions. This may refer to the horribly suffocating Arabian wind, called [Arabic] Smum.
Mohammed, in describing his hell, says, "The wicked shall drink nothing there but hot stinking water; breathe nothing but burning winds; and eat nothing but the fruit of the tree zakon, which shall be in their bellies like burning pitch." Hell enough!
The portion of their cup. — Cup is sometimes put for plenty, for abundance; but here it seems to be used to express the quantum of sorrow and misery which the wicked shall have on the earth. See Psalms 75:8; Isaiah 51:17, Isaiah 51:21-23; Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah 49:12; Lamentations 4:21-22. It is also used in reference to the afflictions of the righteous, Matthew 20:22; Matthew 26:39, Matthew 26:42; John 18:11.
We find a similar metaphor among the heathens. The following, from Homer, Il. xxiv., ver. 525, is in point: -
Ὡς γαρ επεκλωσαντο θεοι δειλοισι βροτοισι,
Ζωειν αχνυμενους· αυτοι δε τ' ακηδεες εισι,
Δοιοι γαρ τε πιθοι κατακειαται εν Διος ουδει
Δωρων, οια διδωσι, κακων· ἑτερος δε εαων·
Ὡ μεν καμμιξας δῳη Ζευς τερπικεραυνος,
αλλοτε μεν τε κακῳ ὁγε κυρεται, Αλλοτε δ' εσθλῳ.
Such is, alas! the god's severe decree,
They, only they are bless'd, and only free.
Two urns by Jove's high throne have ever stood,
The source of evil one, and one of good.
From thence the CUP of mortal man he fills:
Blessings to these; to those distributes ills.
To most he mingles both: the wretch decreed
To taste the bad unmixed, is curs'd indeed.
- POPE.
