Verse 6
6. Rain snares, fire and brim-stone A plain allusion to the overthrow of Sodom, Genesis 19:24-25. The overthrow of the wicked shall, like that of Sodom, be sudden, manifestly the judgment of God, and terrible.
Horrible tempest Literally, hot wind. Probably an allusion to the sirocco. Thomson: “The eyes inflame, the lips blister, and the moisture of the body evaporates under the ceaseless application of this persecuting wind; you become languid, nervous, irritable, and despairing.” The destruction of Sodom became early an emblem of the doom of the wicked, as did afterward gehenna, or tophet. See Deuteronomy 29:23-25; Isaiah 30:33; Isaiah 34:9-10; Ezekiel 38:22; Jude 1:7. To deny the application of these figures to the life to come is to deny that the Old Testament gives any allusion to a future state; that is, that the Hebrews knew as much of that subject as the heathen. Conformably to the same laws of language, before our Lord’s time the Greek παραδεισος , ( grove, pleasure garden,) became the emblem of the abode of the blessed after death.
The portion of their cup An idiomatic expression, (see Job 21:20,) denoting that award or portion which God himself has accurately measured out to the wicked as their just desert. Psalms 75:8; Revelation 14:10. It is also used in a good sense in Psalms 16:5; Psalms 116:13
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