24 Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw

and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,

so their roots will become like something rotten

and their blossoms will blow away like dust,

for they have rejecteda

the instruction of the Lord of Armies,

and they have despised

the word of the Holy One of Israel.b

25 Therefore the Lord’s anger burnedc against his people.

He raised his hand against them and struck them;

the mountains quaked,d

and their corpses were like garbage in the streets.

In all this, his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is still raised to strike.e