Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 11:6

6. Upon ▪the wicked he shall rain snares , fire, and brimstone, and an horrible tempest : this shall be the portion of their cup .

Which notes their Original to be extraordinary, and from God's hand, and withal that they should come plentifully, swiftly, and suddenly, violently and unavoidably, as Rain commonly doth fall from Heaven.

(i. e.) Grievous Plagues or Judgments which are called Snares here, as also Iob. 18. 9, 10. and 22. 10. Isa. 8. 14. and 24. 17, 18. Partly because wicked men are oft times surprized with them when they least expect them, Luk. 21. 35. And partly because they cannot escape them, nor get out of them, but are held fast and destroyed by them.

(i. e.) Dreadful Judgments so called metaphorically, and by allusion to the Destruction of Sodom and other places by these means. But this he seems to speak not so much of present and temporal Calamities, as of their future and eternal Punishments: because he manifestly speaks of those Miseries which are peculiar to wicked men, whereas David knew very well both by his own Experience, and by the History of Iob, and of Israel's Bondage in Egypt, that all things here came alike to all men, good or bad, Eccles. 9. 2. and that good men had many times a greater share of worldly troubles than God's own people; as David acknowledgeth and complaineth of it, Psal. 73.

This is their portion, and as it were the meat and drink appointed to them by God. This shall certainly and unavoidably be their state or condition; which is oft called a mans part or portion, as Psal. 16. 5. and 63. 10. and 75. 8. Mat. 24. 51. He alludes to the antient custom of Masters of Families, or of Feasts, who used to distribute the several Portions of Meat to their Domesticks or Guests.

Marginal references: Ezek. 38 22.; Or, a burning [illegible: 1 word].; Psal. 16. 5.