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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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  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.

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

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  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.

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

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