Psalms 11:6
Upon the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and an horrible tempest: this shall be the portion of their cup.
KJV
Propter miseriam inopum, et gemitum pauperum, nunc exsurgam, dicit Dominus. Ponam in salutari ; fiducialiter agam in eo.
Vulgate
ἀπὸ τῆς ταλαιπωρίας τῶν πτωχῶν καὶ ἀπὸ τοῦ στεναγμοῦ τῶν πενήτων νῦν ἀναστήσομαι, λέγει Κύριος· θήσομαι ἐν σωτηρίᾳ, παρησιάσομαι ἐν αὐτῷ.
LXX
Upon the wicked he will rain snares; Fire and brimstone and burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
ASV
יַמְטֵ֥ר עַל רְשָׁעִ֗ים פַּ֫חִ֥ים אֵ֣שׁ וְ֭/גָפְרִית וְ/ר֥וּחַ זִלְעָפ֗וֹת מְנָ֣ת כּוֹסָֽ/ם
Hebrew
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Themes
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
The bow of God's wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string, and justice bends the arrow at your heart, and strains the bow, and it is nothing but the mere pleasure of God, and that of an angry God, without any promise or obligation at all, that keeps the arrow one moment from being made drunk with your blood. The wrath of God burns against them, their damnation does…
Cross-references
- 1Tim 6:9 — But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
- Eccl 9:12 — For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare; so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly u
- Exod 9:23 — And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.
- Ezek 13:13 — Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; I will even rend it with a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing shower in mine anger, and great hailstones in my fury to consume it.
- Ezek 38:22 — And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire,
- Ezek 38:22 — And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire,
- Gen 19:24 — Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
- Gen 19:24 — Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven;
- Hab 2:16 — Thou art filled with shame for glory: drink thou also, and let thy foreskin be uncovered: the cup of the LORD’s right hand shall be turned unto thee, and shameful spewing shall be on thy glory.
- Isa 8:14 — And he shall be for a sanctuary; but for a stone of stumbling and for a rock of offence to both the houses of Israel, for a gin and for a snare to the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Isa 24:17 — Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.
- Isa 34:9 — And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
- Isa 51:17 — Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
- Isa 51:17 — Awake, awake, stand up, O Jerusalem, which hast drunk at the hand of the LORD the cup of his fury; thou hast drunken the dregs of the cup of trembling, and wrung them out.
- Isa 51:22 — Thus saith thy Lord the LORD, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more d
- Isa 66:15 — For, behold, the LORD will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
- Jer 4:11 — At that time shall it be said to this people and to Jerusalem, A dry wind of the high places in the wilderness toward the daughter of my people, not to fan, nor to cleanse,
- Jer 13:25 — This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
- Jer 25:15 — For thus saith the LORD God of Israel unto me; Take the wine cup of this fury at my hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send thee, to drink it.
- Job 18:15 — It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
- Job 18:15 — It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.
- Job 20:23 — When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
- Job 27:13 — This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, which they shall receive of the Almighty.
- Job 27:21 — The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.
- John 18:11 — Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?
- Josh 10:11 — And it came to pass, as they fled from before Israel, and were in the going down to Bethhoron, that the LORD cast down great stones from heaven upon them unto Azekah, and they died: they were more whi
- Judg 9:56 — Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:
- Luke 17:29 — But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.
- Prov 24:20 — For there shall be no reward to the evil man; the candle of the wicked shall be put out.
- Prov 29:6 — In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.
- Ps 16:5 — The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
- Ps 16:5 — The LORD is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
- Ps 18:8 — There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
- Ps 75:8 — For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and dri
- Ps 75:8 — For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and dri
- Ps 78:49 — He cast upon them the fierceness of his anger, wrath, and indignation, and trouble, by sending evil angels among them.
- Ps 105:32 — He gave them hail for rain, and flaming fire in their land.
- Ps 140:10 — Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
- Rev 9:17 — And thus I saw the horses in the vision, and them that sat on them, having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their
- Rev 14:10 — The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy