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Isaiah 9:18–19

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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.

19Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened,

And the people shall be as the †fuel of the fire:

iNo man shall spare his brother.

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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.
  5. †Heb. meat. ver. 5.
  6. iSo Mic. 7:2, 6.

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.

Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts

the land is scorched,

and the people are like fuel for the fire;

no one spares another.

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.

By the wrath of the Lord Almighty

the land will be scorched

and the people will be fuel for the fire;

they will not spare one another.

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.

The land is scorched

by the wrath of the Lord of Armies,

and the people are like fuel for the fire.

No one has compassion on his brother.

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.

The land will be blackened

by the fury of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.

The people will be fuel for the fire,

and no one will spare even his own brother.

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.

The land was burned through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts,

and the people became like fire fuel.

People had no compassion toward each other.