Isaiah 9:18

Wickedness burns like a fire; it devours the briers and thorns; 1 it even burns the thickets of the forest, which rise in a column of smoke. 1

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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

17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men nor will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows, 1 since every one is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks foolish things. 1 In all these things, his anger does not subside; instead, his hand is still stretched out. 1

19Through the fury of Yahweh of hosts the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire. 1 No man spares his brother. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 11:1Now the people complained about their troubles as Yahweh listened. Yahweh heard the people and became angry. Fire from Yahweh burned among them and consumed some of the camp on its edges.

1 Kings 16:21Then the people of Israel were divided into two parts. Half of the people followed Tibni son of Ginath, to make him king, and half followed Omri.

Psalms 37:20But evil men will perish. 1 Yahweh's enemies will be like the glory of the pastures; 1 they will be consumed and disappear in the smoke. 1

Isaiah 1:31The strong man will be like tinder, and his work like a spark; 1 they will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”

Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours stubble, and as the dry grass goes down in flame, 1 so their root will rot, and their blossom will blow away like dust. 1 This will happen because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of hosts, and because they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 1

Isaiah 27:4I am not angry, Oh, that there were briers and thorns! 1 In battle I would march against them; I would burn them all 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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