Fire and brimstone and burning wind
Shall be the portion of their cup.
—Psalm 11:5-6.
For God is the judge
This one he putteth down, and this one he raiseth up.
—Psalm 75:8.
And men shall say, Truly there is a reward for the righteous;
Verily there is a God, who judgeth in the earth.
—Psalm 58:12.
Yahwe’s act of judgment, therefore, is equivalent to the deliverance of his own people: