Dearly beloved congregation of our Lord Jesus Christ, we come tonight to the sixth plague. The third in each of the three plague cycles is narrated very tersely, and tonight's text is no exception. What I hope to show you from this text is God's power to punish those who hurt His people, and also His power to strengthen the hearts of those same oppressors so that they stubbornly persist in their self-destructive ways. Learn to fear the God who punishes sin with sin.