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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.
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Verse 22. A fire. He alludes to the destruction of Sodom, ( Calmet.) which may be considered as a figure of that which will overtake the whole world at the last day, and excruciate both the souls and the bodies of the reprobate in the flames of hell. Bible.—Fire also denotes war, the horrors of which overwhelmed the Jews both at the first and the last sieges of Jerusalem. Calmet.
Sheol is the place of the dead.
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