Isaiah 9:18

Through 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

In Context

17For 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

19And they grab on the yamin (right hand), and are still hungry; 1 and shall eat on the smol (left hand), and they shall not be satisfied; 1 they shall eat every ish the basar of his own zero'a; 1

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Cross References

Numbers 11:1And when the people complained, it displeased Hashem; Hashem heard it; His anger was kindled; and the Eish Hashem burned among them, and consumed them that were at the edge of the machaneh.

1 Kings 16:21Then were HaAm Yisroel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tivni Ben Ginat, to make him Melech; and half followed Omri.

Psalms 37:20But the resha'im shall perish, 1 and the oyvei Hashem (enemies of Hashem) 1 shall be like the glory of the meadows; 1 they shall disappear like ashan (smoke), they shall vanish. 1

Isaiah 1:31And the strong shall be as tinder, 1 and the maker of it + 1:31 the idol as a spark, 1 and they shall both burn together, 1 and none shall quench them.

Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the eish licketh up the stubble, 1 and the flame consumeth the dry grass, 1 so their shoresh shall be as rottenness, 1 and their blossom shall go up as dust; 1 because they have cast away the Torat Hashem Tzva'os, 1 and spurned the word of the Kadosh Yisroel. 1

Isaiah 27:4Chemah (wrath, fury) is not in Me; 1 but if there were briers and thorns set against Me in milchamah, 1 I would march through it, 1 I would burn it together. 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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