Isaiah 9:16-18

Darby Translation

¹⁶ For the guides of this people mislead [them]; and they that are guided by them are swallowed up.

¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will not rejoice in their young men, neither will he have mercy on their fatherless and on their widows; for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

¹⁸ For wickedness burneth as a fire: it devoureth briars and thorns, and kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they go rolling up like a pillar of smoke.