Isaiah 9:17-19

New American Standard Bible 1995

¹⁷ Therefore the Lord does ^(A)not take pleasure in their young men,
^(B)Nor does He have pity on their ^[a]orphans or their widows;
For every one of them is ^(C)godless and an ^(D)evildoer,
And every ^(E)mouth is speaking foolishness.
^(F)In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away
And His hand is still stretched out.

^18 (G)For wickedness burns like a fire;
It consumes briars and thorns;
It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame
And they roll upward in a column of smoke.
¹⁹ By the ^(H)fury of the Lord of hosts the ^(I)land is burned up,
And the ^(J)people are like fuel for the fire;
No ^(K)man spares his brother.