¹⁷ Therefore the Lord does not ^(A)rejoice over their young men,
    and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows;
for everyone is ^(B)godless and an evildoer,
    and every mouth speaks ^(C)folly.^[a]
(D)For all this his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is stretched out still.
¹⁸ For wickedness burns like ^(E)a fire;
    it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
    and they roll upwards in a column of smoke.
¹⁹ Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts
    the land is scorched,
and ^(F)the people are like fuel for the fire;
    ^(G)no one spares another.