Isaiah 9:18 meaning and explanation
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
Isaiah 9:18, Berean Standard Bible
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Isaiah 9:18 belongs to a prophecy against the northern kingdom of Israel, whose pride and refusal to seek the LORD brought judgment. The verse is a simile: wickedness itself is like fire, catching in dry thorns and briers and climbing into forest thickets until smoke rolls upward.
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