He sends down flaming coals and burning sulfur on the wicked; he punishes them with scorching winds.

He will destroy them like a blazing fire when he appears. The LORD will devour them in his anger, and fire will consume them.

Why have you abandoned us like this, O God? Will you be angry with your own people forever?

He looks at the earth, and it trembles; he touches the mountains, and they pour out smoke.

O LORD, tear the sky open and come down; touch the mountains, and they will pour out smoke.

Send flashes of lightning and scatter your enemies; shoot your arrows and send them running.

He looked down at Sodom and Gomorrah and the whole valley and saw smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a huge furnace.

Suddenly the LORD sent fire, and it burned them to death there in the presence of the LORD.

The people began to complain to the LORD about their troubles. When the LORD heard them, he became angry and sent fire on the people. It burned among them and destroyed one end of the camp.

Then the LORD sent a fire that blazed out and burned up the 250 men who had presented the incense.

The LORD will not forgive such a man. Instead, the LORD's burning anger will flame up against him, and all the disasters written in this book will fall on him until the LORD has destroyed him completely.

The fields will be a barren waste, covered with sulfur and salt; nothing will be planted, and not even weeds will grow there. Your land will be like the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, of Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed when he was furiously angry.

Then the whole world will ask, 'Why did the LORD do this to their land? What was the reason for his fierce anger?'

with a flaming fire, to punish those who reject God and who do not obey the Good News about our Lord Jesus.

and a stream of fire was pouring out from it. There were many thousands of people there to serve him, and millions of people stood before him. The court began its session, and the books were opened.

"I destroyed some of you as I destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. Those of you who survived were like a burning stick saved from a fire. Still you did not come back to me," says the LORD.

Mountains quake in the presence of the LORD; hills melt before him. The earth shakes when the LORD appears; the world and all its people tremble.

When he is angry, who can survive? Who can survive his terrible fury? He pours out his flaming anger; rocks crumble to dust before him.

If anyone tries to harm them, fire comes out of their mouths and destroys their enemies; and in this way whoever tries to harm them will be killed.