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It burns not only briers and thorns but also sets the forests ablaze. Its burning sends up clouds of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/9.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/9.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/9.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />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 <i>like</i> the lifting up of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/9.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />For wickedness burns as the fire; It shall devour the briers and thorns, And kindle in the thickets of the forest; They shall mount up <i>like</i> rising smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/9.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns; It also sets the thickets of the forest aflame And they roll upward in a column of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/9.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/9.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/9.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/9.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns, It even sets the forest thickets ablaze; And it swirls upward in a column of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/9.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets so that they go up in a column of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/9.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets so that they go up in a column of smoke. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/9.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />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.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/9.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Evil had spread like a raging forest fire sending thornbushes up in smoke. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/9.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />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 thick clouds of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/9.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Surely wickedness burns like fire. It burns up briars and thorns. It sets the underbrush in the forest on fire, and it whirls upward in clouds of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/9.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />The wickedness of the people burns like a fire that destroys thorn bushes and thistles. It burns like a forest fire that sends up columns of smoke. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/9.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"For wickedness has burned like a blaze that consumes briers and thorns; it sets thickets of the forest on fire, and skyward they swirl in a column of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/9.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/9.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />For evil burned like a fire, it consumed thorns and briers; it burned up the thickets of the forest, and they went up in smoke. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/9.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/9.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />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 rising of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/9.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/9.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />For wickedness has burned as a fire, "" It devours brier and thorn, "" And it kindles in thickets of the forest, "" And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/9.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> For burned as a fire hath wickedness, Brier and thorn it devoureth, And it kindleth in thickets of the forest, And they lift themselves up, an exaltation of smoke!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/9.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />For wickedness burnt as fire; the sharp point and the thorn it shall consume, and shall burn in the thickets of the forest, and they shall roll up in the mounting up of smoke.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/9.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />For wickedness is kindled as a fire, it shall devour the brier and the thorn: and shall kindle in the thicket of the forest, and it shall be wrapped up in smoke ascending on high. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/9.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />For impiety has been kindled like a fire: it will devour brier and thorn, and it will burn in the dense forest, and it will be interwoven with the ascending smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/9.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like fire, devouring brier and thorn; It kindles the forest thickets, which go up in columns of smoke. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/9.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />For wickedness burned like a fire, consuming briers and thorns; it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/9.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />For wickedness burns like the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and the chosen ones shall roll up like the lifting up of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/9.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Because sin burned as fire and it will devour a thicket and thorns, and it shall continue into the branches of the forest, and the chosen ones shall be engulfed in smoke<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/9.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />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 thick clouds of smoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/9.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass: and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/9-18.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=2040" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/9.htm">Judgment Against Israel's Unrepentance</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">18</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. ">For</a> <a href="/hebrew/7564.htm" title="7564: riš·‘āh (N-fs) -- Wickedness. Feminine of resha'; wrong.">wickedness</a> <a href="/hebrew/1197.htm" title="1197: ḇā·‘ă·rāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- To kindle, consume, to be, brutish. A primitive root; to kindle, i.e. Consume; also to be(-come) brutish.">burns</a> <a href="/hebrew/784.htm" title="784: ḵā·’êš (Prep-k, Art:: N-cs) -- A fire. A primitive word; fire.">like a fire</a> <a href="/hebrew/398.htm" title="398: tō·ḵêl (V-Qal-Imperf-3fs) -- To eat. A primitive root; to eat.">that consumes</a> <a href="/hebrew/7898.htm" title="7898: wā·ša·yiṯ (Conj-w:: N-ms) -- Thornbushes. From shiyth; scrub or trash, i.e. Wild growth of weeds or briers.">the thorns</a> <a href="/hebrew/8068.htm" title="8068: šā·mîr (N-ms) -- A thorn, adamant, flint. From shamar in the original sense of pricking; a thorn; also a gem, probably the diamond.">and briers</a> <a href="/hebrew/3341.htm" title="3341: wat·tiṣ·ṣaṯ (Conj-w:: V-Qal-ConsecImperf-3fs) -- To kindle, burn. A primitive root; to burn or set on fire; figuratively, to desolate.">and kindles</a> <a href="/hebrew/3293.htm" title="3293: hay·ya·‘ar (Art:: N-ms) -- From an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure; a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb.">the forest</a> <a href="/hebrew/5442.htm" title="5442: bə·siḇ·ḵê (Prep-b:: N-mpc) -- A thicket. From cabak, a copse.">thickets</a> <a href="/hebrew/55.htm" title="55: way·yiṯ·’ab·bə·ḵū (Conj-w:: V-Hitpael-ConsecImperf-3mp) -- To turn. A primitive root; probably to coil upward.">which roll upward</a> <a href="/hebrew/1348.htm" title="1348: gê·’ūṯ (N-fsc) -- Majesty. From ga'ah; the same as ga'avah.">in billows</a> <a href="/hebrew/6227.htm" title="6227: ‘ā·šān (N-ms) -- Smoke. From ashan; smoke, literally or figuratively.">of smoke.</a> </span><span class="reftext">19</span>By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/3-6.htm">James 3:6</a></span><br />The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/5-14.htm">Jeremiah 5:14</a></span><br />Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/12-29.htm">Hebrews 12:29</a></span><br />“For our God is a consuming fire.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/83-14.htm">Psalm 83:14</a></span><br />As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/4-1.htm">Malachi 4:1</a></span><br />“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_thessalonians/1-8.htm">2 Thessalonians 1:8</a></span><br />in blazing fire, inflicting vengeance on those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord Jesus.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/deuteronomy/32-22.htm">Deuteronomy 32:22</a></span><br />For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and scorches the foundations of the mountains.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/revelation/8-7.htm">Revelation 8:7</a></span><br />Then the first angel sounded his trumpet, and hail and fire mixed with blood were hurled down upon the earth. A third of the earth was burned up, along with a third of the trees and all the green grass.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/20-47.htm">Ezekiel 20:47-48</a></span><br />Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched. / Then all people will see that I, the LORD, have kindled it; it will not be quenched.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/3-12.htm">Matthew 3:12</a></span><br />His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/nahum/1-6.htm">Nahum 1:6</a></span><br />Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_peter/3-10.htm">2 Peter 3:10</a></span><br />But the Day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar, the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and its works will be laid bare.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/21-14.htm">Jeremiah 21:14</a></span><br />I will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/1-19.htm">Joel 1:19-20</a></span><br />To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field. / Even the beasts of the field pant for You, for the streams of water have dried up, and fire has consumed the open pastures.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/10-17.htm">Isaiah 10:17</a></span><br />And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">For wickedness burns 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.</p><p class="hdg">wickedness</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/1-31.htm">Isaiah 1:31</a></b></br> And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench <i>them</i>.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/30-30.htm">Isaiah 30:30,33</a></b></br> And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of <i>his</i> anger, and <i>with</i> the flame of a devouring fire, <i>with</i> scattering, and tempest, and hailstones… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/33-12.htm">Isaiah 33:12</a></b></br> And the people shall be <i>as</i> the burnings of lime: <i>as</i> thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.</p><p class="hdg">it shall</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/10-16.htm">Isaiah 10:16-18</a></b></br> Therefore shall the Lord, the Lord of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/27-4.htm">Isaiah 27:4</a></b></br> Fury <i>is</i> not in me: who would set the briers <i>and</i> thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hebrews/6-8.htm">Hebrews 6:8</a></b></br> But that which beareth thorns and briers <i>is</i> rejected, and <i>is</i> nigh unto cursing; whose end <i>is</i> to be burned.</p><p class="hdg">shall kindle</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/20-47.htm">Ezekiel 20:47,48</a></b></br> And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein… </p><p class="hdg">mount</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/5-24.htm">Isaiah 5:24</a></b></br> Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, <i>so</i> their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/psalms/37-20.htm">Psalm 37:20</a></b></br> But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the LORD <i>shall be</i> as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/13-3.htm">Hosea 13:3</a></b></br> Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff <i>that</i> is driven with the whirlwind out of the floor, and as the smoke out of the chimney.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/83-14.htm">Ablaze</a> <a href="/proverbs/29-8.htm">Aflame</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-25.htm">Blackberries</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-25.htm">Briars</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-25.htm">Brier</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-25.htm">Briers</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-5.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/psalms/106-18.htm">Burneth</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-25.htm">Burns</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-22.htm">Clouds</a> <a href="/songs/3-6.htm">Column</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/4-5.htm">Consumes</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-2.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-12.htm">Devour</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-24.htm">Devoureth</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-24.htm">Devours</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-16.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/psalms/149-6.htm">Exaltation</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-5.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-2.htm">Forest</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-21.htm">Kindle</a> <a href="/job/41-21.htm">Kindles</a> <a href="/job/41-21.htm">Kindleth</a> <a href="/proverbs/30-32.htm">Lifting</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-18.htm">Mount</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-14.htm">Pillar</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-11.htm">Rising</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-1.htm">Roll</a> <a href="/proverbs/26-27.htm">Rolling</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/1-5.htm">Sets</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-4.htm">Smoke</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-20.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-21.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-22.htm">Thick</a> <a href="/2_chronicles/33-11.htm">Thickets</a> <a href="/isaiah/7-25.htm">Thorns</a> <a href="/isaiah/8-21.htm">Upward</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-18.htm">Wickedness</a> <a href="/isaiah/6-13.htm">Woods</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/33-12.htm">Ablaze</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-25.htm">Aflame</a> <a href="/isaiah/5-6.htm">Blackberries</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-17.htm">Briars</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-17.htm">Brier</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-17.htm">Briers</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-19.htm">Burned</a> <a href="/isaiah/42-25.htm">Burneth</a> <a href="/isaiah/44-15.htm">Burns</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-14.htm">Clouds</a> <a href="/judges/20-40.htm">Column</a> <a href="/isaiah/24-6.htm">Consumes</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-19.htm">Dark</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-20.htm">Devour</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-20.htm">Devoureth</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-20.htm">Devours</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-1.htm">Evil</a> <a href="/isaiah/33-3.htm">Exaltation</a> <a href="/isaiah/9-19.htm">Fire</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-18.htm">Forest</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-16.htm">Kindle</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-33.htm">Kindles</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-16.htm">Kindleth</a> <a href="/isaiah/18-3.htm">Lifting</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-12.htm">Mount</a> <a href="/isaiah/19-19.htm">Pillar</a> <a href="/isaiah/13-10.htm">Rising</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-18.htm">Roll</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-13.htm">Rolling</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-1.htm">Sets</a> <a href="/isaiah/14-31.htm">Smoke</a> <a href="/isaiah/12-2.htm">Surely</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-31.htm">Themselves</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-34.htm">Thick</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-34.htm">Thickets</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-17.htm">Thorns</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-31.htm">Upward</a> <a href="/isaiah/47-10.htm">Wickedness</a> <a href="/isaiah/10-18.htm">Woods</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 9</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/9-1.htm">What joy shall be in the midst of afflictions, by the birth and kingdom of Christ</a></span><br><span class="reftext">8. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/9-8.htm">The judgments upon Israel for their pride</a></span><br><span class="reftext">13. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/9-13.htm">For their hypocrisy</a></span><br><span class="reftext">18. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/9-18.htm">And for their unrepentance</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In Hebrew, the word for "wickedness" is "רִשְׁעָה" (rish'ah), which conveys a sense of moral wrongness and injustice. The metaphor of fire is significant in the biblical context, often symbolizing judgment, purification, or destruction. Here, it emphasizes how sin and moral corruption can spread rapidly and uncontrollably, much like a wildfire, consuming everything in its path. This imagery serves as a warning of the inherent dangers of allowing wickedness to go unchecked within a society or individual life.<p><b>it consumes the briers and thorns</b><br />The phrase "it consumes the briers and thorns;" continues the metaphor of fire, illustrating how wickedness destroys what is unproductive or harmful. In the ancient Near Eastern context, "briers and thorns" were often associated with desolation and curse, as seen in <a href="/genesis/3-18.htm">Genesis 3:18</a>, where thorns and thistles are part of the curse upon the ground. The Hebrew words "שָׁמִיר" (shamir) for "briers" and "שַׁיִת" (shayith) for "thorns" suggest things that are obstacles or hindrances. This consumption indicates that wickedness not only spreads but also eradicates anything that stands in its way, leaving behind a barren and desolate landscape.<p><b>it sets the forest thickets ablaze</b><br />The phrase "it sets the forest thickets ablaze," expands the destructive power of wickedness to a larger scale. The "forest thickets" symbolize the dense and complex structures of society, which can be engulfed by the flames of sin. The Hebrew word "יַעַר" (ya'ar) for "forest" often represents a place of growth and life, but here it is depicted as vulnerable to destruction. This imagery underscores the idea that no part of society is immune to the effects of pervasive wickedness, which can lead to widespread devastation and chaos.<p><b>so that it billows up in columns of smoke</b><br />The phrase "so that it billows up in columns of smoke." concludes the imagery with the aftermath of the fire, where smoke rises as a visible sign of destruction. The Hebrew word "עָשָׁן" (ashan) for "smoke" is often associated with the presence of fire and its consuming effects. The "columns of smoke" suggest a significant and far-reaching impact, visible to all. This serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of sin, which not only affects the immediate environment but also sends a signal to others of the devastation that has occurred. The imagery calls for reflection on the need for repentance and turning away from wickedness to prevent such destruction.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/9.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(18) <span class= "bld">It shall devour the briers and thorns . . .</span>--The words are obviously figurative for men who were base and vile, as in <a href="/2_samuel/23-6.htm" title="But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:">2Samuel 23:6</a>; but the figure may have been suggested by <a href="/context/isaiah/7-23.htm" title="And it shall come to pass in that day, that every place shall be, where there were a thousand vines at a thousand sliver coins, it shall even be for briers and thorns.">Isaiah 7:23-24</a>. The outward desolation, with its rank growth of underwood, was to the prophet's eye a type of the moral condition of his people. And for such a people sin becomes the punishment of sin, and burns like a fire in a forest thicket, leaving the land clear for fresh culture and a better growth. (Comp. <a href="/context/isaiah/33-11.htm" title="You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.">Isaiah 33:11-12</a>; <a href="/james/3-5.htm" title="Even so the tongue is a little member, and boasts great things. Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles!">James 3:5</a>; <a href="/hebrews/6-8.htm" title="But that which bears thorns and briers is rejected, and is near to cursing; whose end is to be burned.">Hebrews 6:8</a>.)<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/9.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 18.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Wickedness burneth as the fire</span>; <span class="accented">i.e.</span> the contagion of wickedness overspreads a whole nation in the same rapid way that fire spreads over a field of stubble or a forest. <span class="cmt_word">They shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke</span>; rather, <span class="accented">they - i.e.</span>, the forest <span class="accented">thickets - shall be whirled upward with the uplifting of smoke</span>. The burning thickets shall mount up with the volumes of smoke into the air, and hang there as a murky but lurid pall. The flames of wickedness give no light to a land, but lunge it in heavy, hopeless gloom. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/9-18.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">For</span><br /><span class="heb">כִּֽי־</span> <span class="translit">(kî-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3588.htm">Strong's 3588: </a> </span><span class="str2">A relative conjunction</span><br /><br /><span class="word">wickedness</span><br /><span class="heb">רִשְׁעָ֔ה</span> <span class="translit">(riš·‘āh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7564.htm">Strong's 7564: </a> </span><span class="str2">Wickedness</span><br /><br /><span class="word">burns</span><br /><span class="heb">בָעֲרָ֤ה</span> <span class="translit">(ḇā·‘ă·rāh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1197.htm">Strong's 1197: </a> </span><span class="str2">To kindle, consume, to be, brutish</span><br /><br /><span class="word">like a fire</span><br /><span class="heb">כָאֵשׁ֙</span> <span class="translit">(ḵā·’êš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-k, Article | Noun - common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_784.htm">Strong's 784: </a> </span><span class="str2">A fire</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that consumes</span><br /><span class="heb">תֹּאכֵ֑ל</span> <span class="translit">(tō·ḵêl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_398.htm">Strong's 398: </a> </span><span class="str2">To eat</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the thorns</span><br /><span class="heb">וָשַׁ֖יִת</span> <span class="translit">(wā·ša·yiṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7898.htm">Strong's 7898: </a> </span><span class="str2">Scrub, trash, wild growth of weeds, briers</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and briers</span><br /><span class="heb">שָׁמִ֥יר</span> <span class="translit">(šā·mîr)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_8068.htm">Strong's 8068: </a> </span><span class="str2">A thorn, a gem, the diamond</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and kindles</span><br /><span class="heb">וַתִּצַּת֙</span> <span class="translit">(wat·tiṣ·ṣaṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3341.htm">Strong's 3341: </a> </span><span class="str2">To burn, set on fire, to desolate</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the forest</span><br /><span class="heb">הַיַּ֔עַר</span> <span class="translit">(hay·ya·‘ar)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3293.htm">Strong's 3293: </a> </span><span class="str2">A copse of bushes, a forest, honey in the comb</span><br /><br /><span class="word">thickets</span><br /><span class="heb">בְּסִֽבְכֵ֣י</span> <span class="translit">(bə·siḇ·ḵê)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_5442.htm">Strong's 5442: </a> </span><span class="str2">A thicket</span><br /><br /><span class="word">which roll upward</span><br /><span class="heb">וַיִּֽתְאַבְּכ֖וּ</span> <span class="translit">(way·yiṯ·’ab·bə·ḵū)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hitpael - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_55.htm">Strong's 55: </a> </span><span class="str2">To coil upward</span><br /><br /><span class="word">in columns</span><br /><span class="heb">גֵּא֥וּת</span> <span class="translit">(gê·’ūṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1348.htm">Strong's 1348: </a> </span><span class="str2">Arrogance, majesty, ornament</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of smoke.</span><br /><span class="heb">עָשָֽׁן׃</span> <span class="translit">(‘ā·šān)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6227.htm">Strong's 6227: </a> </span><span class="str2">Smoke</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/9-18.htm">Isaiah 9:18 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/9-18.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness burns like a fire (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/9-17.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 9:17"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 9:17" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/9-19.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 9:19"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 9:19" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>