Isaiah 9:18

For lawlessness, hath consumed like fire, Briars and thorns, doth it devour,—Yea it hath kindled upon the thickets of the forest, And they have rolled up as a column of smoke.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 this cause, over their choice young men, will My Lord not rejoice, And on their fatherless and their widows, will he not have compassion, For every one of them, is profane and an evildoer, And, every mouth is speaking baseness,—For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But still, is his hand outstretched.

19Through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts, is the land consumed,—And the people have come to be, as fuel for fire, A man unto his own brother, sheweth not pity;

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Cross References

Numbers 11:1And it came to pass that when the people were giving themselves up to murmuring, it was grievous in the ears of Yahweh,—so Yahweh hearkened, and kindled was his anger, and the fire of Yahweh burned among them, and consumed the uttermost part of the camp.

1 Kings 16:21Then, were the people of Israel divided,—half the people, were following Tibni son of Ginath, to make him king, and, half, following Omri.

Psalms 37:20For, the lawless, shall perish, and, the foes of Yahweh, be like the glory of the meadows, They have vanished! In smoke, have they vanished!

Isaiah 1:31Then shall the strong one become tow, And his work a spark,—And they shall both blaze together And there be none to quench the fire.

Isaiah 5:24Therefore, As a tongue of fire, eateth up straw, And a flame reduceth, dry grass, to powder, Their root, like rottenness, shall become, And their blossom, like dust shall ascend,—Because they refused the law of Yahweh of hosts, And the utterance of the Holy One of Israel, they despised.

Isaiah 27:4Fury, have I none,—Oh that there were delivered to me briars and thorns, in battle! I would march in among them I would set fire to them one and all.

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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