Isaiah 9:17

For wickedness burneth like eish; 1 it shall devour the briers and thorns, 1 and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, 1 and they shall smoke upward like the lifting up of ashan (smoke). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

In Context

16Therefore Adonoi shall have no joy in their bocherim, 1 neither shall have mercy on their yetomim and almanot; 1 for every one is a chanef (g-dless, hypocritical) and an evildoer, 1 and every mouth speaketh nevalah (folly). 1 For all this His anger is not turned away, 1 but His yad is upraised still. 1

18Through the Evrat Hashem Tzva'os (Wrath of Hashem of Hosts) 1 is the land darkened, 1 and HaAm shall be ma'acholet eish (food for fire); 1 no ish shall spare his brother. 1

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Cross References

Job 15:34For the Adat Chanef (congregation of hypocrites) shall be barren, 1 and eish shall consume the ohalim of bribery. 1

Isaiah 1:4Ah, goy choteh (sinful nation), 1 a people weighed down with avon (guilt, iniquity), 1 zera of evildoers, banim of corruption; 1 they forsook Hashem, 1 they have spurned the Kadosh Yisroel (the Holy One of Yisroel), 1 they have turned their back on Him. + 1:4 T.N. Here we see it is “My people” ( Ex 6:6-7 ) who are stricken, whereas in Isa 53:8 it is Moshiach Ben Dovid who is stricken for My people. 1

Isaiah 5:25Therefore is the Af Hashem kindled against His people, 1 and He hath stretched forth His yad against them, 1 and hath struck them down; and the mountains did tremble, 1 and their nevilah were like refuse in the streets. 1 For all this His anger is not turned away, 1 but His yad is stretched out still. 1

Isaiah 10:4Without Me they shall bow down under the prisoners, 1 and they shall fall under the slain. 1 For all this His anger is not turned away, 1 but His yad is upraised still. 1

Isaiah 13:18Their keshatot (bows) also shall tear ne'arim (young men) to pieces; 1 and they shall have no rachamim on the pri beten (fruit of the womb); 1 their eyes shall not pity banim. 1

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 9:9-21

Threatenings against Judah; Threatenings against Israel. ( b. c. 740.) 8 The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel. 9 And all the people shall know, even Ephraim and the inhabitant of Samaria, that say in the pride and stoutness of heart, 10 The bricks are fallen down, but we will build with hewn stones: the sycomores are cut down, but we will change them into cedars. 11 Therefore the Lord shall set up the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together; 12 The Syrians… Read the whole commentary →

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