Psalms 11:6

Literally:

Let him rain snares upon the wicked!

Fire and brimstone and scorching blast be the portion of their cup!

A wish takes the place of the simple statement (he shall rain) which might have been expected. Cp. Psalms 12:3. May the wicked meet the fate of Sodom, so often alluded to as the typical example of signal judgment upon gross and defiant sin. The language is borrowed from Genesis 19:24. Cp. Deuteronomy 29:23; Ezekiel 38:22. The -snares" are to entangle them so that they cannot escape from the fire which consumes, and the fatal simoom which suffocates. But possibly we should follow the version of Symmachus in reading coals of firefor snares. So Cheyne and others. Cp. Psalms 18:12; and Psalms 140:10 (a psalm containing other allusions to this psalm).