Isaiah 9:17–18

17 Therefore the Lord does not rejoice

overB Israel’s young men

and has no compassion

on its fatherless and widows,

for everyone is a godless evildoer,q

and every mouth speaks folly.

In all this, his anger has not turned away,

and his hand is still raised to strike.

18 For wickedness burns like a firer

that consumes thorns and briers

and kindles the forest thickets

so that they go up in a column of smoke.