Isaiah 9:15-17

Complete Jewish Bible

¹⁵⁽¹⁶⁾For those leading this people lead them astray,
and those led by them are destroyed.
¹⁶⁽¹⁷⁾Therefore Adonai takes no joy in their young men
and has no compassion on their orphans and widows;
for everyone is ungodly and does evil,
every mouth speaks foolishly.

Even after all this, his anger remains,
his upraised hand still threatens.
¹⁷⁽¹⁸⁾For wickedness burns like fire,
it devours briars and thorns;
it sets the forest underbrush ablaze,
with clouds of smoke whirling upward.

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