Psalms 106:17
Hebrew Text— Psalms 106:17The earth opened and swallowed up Dathan, and covered the company of Abiram.
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even the censers of those who sinned against their own lives. Let them be beaten into plates for a covering of the altar, for they offered them before Yahweh. Therefore they are holy. They shall be a sign to the children of Israel.”
These are those who were called of the congregation, the princes of the tribes of their fathers; they were the heads of the thousands of Israel.
Notwithstanding, the sons of Korah didn’t die.
and what he did to Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, the son of Reuben—how the earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up, with their households, their tents, and every living thing that followed them, in the middle of all Israel;
All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire will devour him. It will consume that which is left in his tent.
“For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up,” says Yahweh of Armies, “that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
Fire came out from Yahweh, and devoured the two hundred fifty men who offered the incense.
Be merciful to me, God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in you. Yes, in the shadow of your wings, I will take refuge, until disaster has passed.
Let burning coals fall on them. Let them be thrown into the fire, into miry pits, from where they never rise.
I will make them to pass with your enemies into a land which you don’t know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which will burn on you.”
The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob without pity. He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
As he finished speaking all these words, the ground that was under them split apart.
“Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.
The sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,
Then he will speak to them in his anger, and terrify them in his wrath:
Preserve me, God, for I take refuge in you.
Smoke went out of his nostrils. Consuming fire came out of his mouth. Coals were kindled by it.
When evildoers came at me to eat up my flesh, even my adversaries and my foes, they stumbled and fell.
Our God comes, and does not keep silent. A fire devours before him. It is very stormy around him.
Be merciful to me, Lord, for I call to you all day long.
Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don’t see; but they will see your zeal for the people, and be disappointed. Yes, fire will consume your adversaries.
and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way;
He looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the plain, and saw that the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.
The sons of Izhar: Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri.
The sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.
The children of Israel ate the manna forty years, until they came to an inhabited land. They ate the manna until they came to the borders of the land of Canaan.
“Don’t cut off the tribe of the families of the Kohathites from among the Levites;
Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took some men.
They rose up before Moses, with some of the children of Israel, two hundred fifty princes of the congregation, called to the assembly, men of renown.
The earth opened its mouth and swallowed them up with their households, all of Korah’s men, and all their goods.
The sons of Eliab: Nemuel, Dathan, and Abiram. These are that Dathan and Abiram who were called by the congregation, who rebelled against Moses and against Aaron in the company of Korah when they rebelled against Yahweh;
and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up together with Korah when that company died; at the time the fire devoured two hundred fifty men, and they became a sign.
For Yahweh your God is a devouring fire, a jealous God.
For a fire is kindled in my anger, that burns to the lowest Sheol, devours the earth with its increase, and sets the foundations of the mountains on fire.
This will be the sign to you that will come on your two sons, on Hophni and Phinehas: in one day they will both die.
I am among those who are peaceable and faithful in Israel. You seek to destroy a city and a mother in Israel. Why will you swallow up Yahweh’s inheritance?”
For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.
Give sincere homage to the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish on the way, for his wrath will soon be kindled. Blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
Answer me when I call, God of my righteousness. Give me relief from my distress. Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
You will make them as a fiery furnace in the time of your anger. Yahweh will swallow them up in his wrath. The fire shall devour them.
My God, I have trusted in you. Don’t let me be shamed. Don’t let my enemies triumph over me.
Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.
Don’t let them say in their heart, “Aha! That’s the way we want it!” Don’t let them say, “We have swallowed him up!”
Be merciful to me, God, for man wants to swallow me up. All day long, he attacks and oppresses me.
Do you indeed speak righteousness, silent ones? Do you judge blamelessly, you sons of men?
My God will go before me with his loving kindness. God will let me look at my enemies in triumph.
God, you have rejected us. You have broken us down. You have been angry. Restore us, again.
to him who struck down the Egyptian firstborn; for his loving kindness endures forever;
Let’s swallow them up alive like Sheol, and whole, like those who go down into the pit.
The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.
The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots will be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
A curse will be taken up about them by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, ‘Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;’
The Lord has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.
All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowed her up. Certainly this is the day that we looked for. We have found it. We have seen it.”
I will set my face against that man, and will make him an astonishment, for a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from among my people. Then you will know that I am Yahweh.
Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you will be melted in the middle of it.
For they have prepared their heart like an oven, while they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
Israel is swallowed up. Now they are among the nations like a worthless thing.
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
“Even now the ax lies at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that doesn’t produce good fruit is cut down, and cast into the fire.
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.”
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
and will cast them into the furnace of fire. There will be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.”
When the king heard that, he was angry, and sent his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city.
‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?’
Then he will say also to those on the left hand, ‘Depart from me, you cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels;
These will go away into eternal punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.”
But when this perishable body will have become imperishable, and this mortal will have put on immortality, then what is written will happen: “Death is swallowed up in victory.”
so that on the contrary you should rather forgive him and comfort him, lest by any means such a one should be swallowed up with his excessive sorrow.
forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved, to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
punishing those who don’t know God, and to those who don’t obey the Good News of our Lord Jesus,
but a certain fearful expectation of judgment, and a fierceness of fire which will devour the adversaries.
Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire.
Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the wine press of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.
Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire.
As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.