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Isaiah 9:18

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18For wickedness eburneth as the fire:

It shall devour fthe briers and thorns,

And shall kindle in gthe thickets of the forest,

And they shall mount up like hthe lifting up of smoke.

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Footnotes

  1. ePs. 83:14. ch. 10:17, 18. So ch. 1:31. & 27:4. Mal. 4:1.
  2. fSee ch. 5:6.
  3. gch. 10:34.
  4. hSo Ps. 68:2. Hos. 13:3.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

For wickedness burns like a fire;

it consumes briers and thorns;

it kindles the thickets of the forest,

and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Surely wickedness burns like a fire;

it consumes briers and thorns,

it sets the forest thickets ablaze,

so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

For wickedness burns like a fire

that consumes thorns and briers

and kindles the forest thickets

so that they go up in a column of smoke.

NLTNew Living Translation

This wickedness is like a brushfire.

It burns not only briers and thorns

but also sets the forests ablaze.

Its burning sends up clouds of smoke.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

For wickedness burned like fire;

it consumed brier and thorn.

And it kindled the thickets of the forest,

and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.