Now it came about at midnight that the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.

I will smite them with

pestilence and dispossess them, and I will make you into a nation greater and mightier than they.”

Moses said to Aaron, “Take your censer and put in it fire from the altar, and lay incense on it; then bring it quickly to the congregation and make atonement for them, for wrath has gone forth from the Lord, the plague has begun!”

He leveled a path for His anger;
He did not spare their soul from death,
But gave over their life to the plague,

A jealous and avenging God is the Lord;
The Lord is avenging and wrathful.
The Lord takes vengeance on His adversaries,
And He reserves wrath for His enemies.

And

Then the earth shook and quaked;
And the foundations of the mountains were trembling
And were shaken, because He was angry.

Burning coals

‘They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague

And bitter destruction;

And the teeth of beasts I will send upon them,

With the venom of crawling things of the dust.

General references

“He

obscures the face of the full moon

And spreads His cloud over it.

“His breath kindles coals,
And a flame goes forth from his mouth.

Fire goes before Him

And burns up His adversaries round about.