Isaiah 9:18
“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
🌐 Isaiah 9:18 in 8 Translations
King James Version (KJV)English
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.
American Standard Version (ASV)English
For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns; yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Open English Bible (OEB)English
Elberfelder Bibel (ELB)Deutsch
Denn die Gesetzlosigkeit brennt wie Feuer: sie verzehrt Dornen und Disteln, und zündet in den Dickichten des Waldes, daß sie emporwirbeln in hoch aufsteigendem Rauche.
Reina-Valera (RV)Español
Porque la maldad se encendió como fuego, cardos y espinas devorará; y encenderáse en lo espeso de la breña, y serán alzados como humo.
Bíblia Livre (BL)Português
Pois a perversidade queima como fogo, que consumirá cardos e espinhos, e incendiará aos emaranhados das árvores da floresta; e subirão como nuvens de fumaça.
Nova Versão (NVA)Português
A maldade queima como fogo, que devora os cardos e os espinhos, incendiando as matas da floresta, fazendo crescer uma coluna de fumaça.
📖 Isaiah 9:18 in Context
16For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
17Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18For 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.
19Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts is the land darkened, and the people shall be as the fuel of the fire: no man shall spare his brother.
20And he shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm:
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