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And rains upon the wicked
    fiery coals and brimstone,
    a scorching wind their allotted cup.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 11:6 Their allotted cup: the cup that God gives people to drink is a common figure for their destiny, cf. Ps 16:5; 75:9; Mt 20:22; 26:39; Rev 14:10.

On the wicked he will rain
    fiery coals and burning sulfur;(A)
    a scorching wind(B) will be their lot.

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A warrior’s arrows
    sharpened with coals of brush wood![a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 120:4 Coals of brush wood: coals made from the stalk of the broom plant burn with intense heat. The psalmist thinks of lighted coals cast at his enemies.

He will punish you with a warrior’s sharp arrows,(A)
    with burning coals of the broom bush.

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24 and the Lord rained down sulfur upon Sodom and Gomorrah, fire from the Lord out of heaven.(A)

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24 Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur(A) on Sodom and Gomorrah(B)—from the Lord out of the heavens.(C)

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