Spiritual Quote of the Day (Psalm 73, on the Wicked)

 “They mock and speak with malice,
   from on high they speak out oppression.
They put their mouth up to the heavens,
   and their tongue goes over the earth.
 
“Thus the people turn back to them,
   and they lap up their words.
And they say, ‘How could God know, and is there knowledge with the most high?’
   Look, such are the wicked.”—American hebraist and critic Robert Alter, "Psalm 73," in The Book of Psalms: A Translation with Commentary (2009)

 
In the Bible, God’s ultimate response to wicked people might be the devastation wreaked on Sodom and Gomorrah. That scene is the subject of the image accompanying this post, the 1852 painting The Destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, by English artist John Martin (1789-1854).