Isaiah 9:17

New American Bible - revised edition

For wickedness burns like fire, devouring brier and thorn; It kindles the forest thickets, which go up in columns of smoke.

Cross References

Job 15:34

For the breed of the impious shall be sterile, and fire shall consume the tents of extortioners.

Psalm 109:12

May no one treat him with mercy or pity his fatherless children.

Psalm 147:10

He takes no delight in the strength of horses, no pleasure in the runner’s stride.

Isaiah 1:4

Ah! Sinful nation, people laden with wickedness, evil offspring, corrupt children! They have forsaken the Lord, spurned the Holy One of Israel, apostatized,

Isaiah 10:2

Depriving the needy of judgment, robbing my people’s poor of justice, Making widows their plunder, and orphans their prey!

Isaiah 10:4

Lest it sink beneath the captive or fall beneath the slain? For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched!

Isaiah 10:6

Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people under my wrath I order him To seize plunder, carry off loot, and to trample them like the mud of the street.

Isaiah 13:18

With their bows they shall shatter the young men, And the fruit of the womb they shall not spare, nor shall their eye take pity on children.

Isaiah 14:20

You will never be together with them in the grave, For you have ruined your land, you have slain your people! Let him never be named, that offshoot of evil!

Isaiah 24:5

The earth is polluted because of its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated statutes, broken the ancient covenant.

Isaiah 27:11

When its boughs wither, they shall be broken off; and women shall come to kindle fires with them. For this is not an understanding people; therefore their maker shall not spare them; their creator shall not be gracious to them.

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem has stumbled, Judah has fallen; for their speech and deeds affront the Lord, a provocation in the sight of his majesty.

Isaiah 31:2

Yet he too is wise and will bring disaster; he will not turn from his threats. He will rise up against the house of the wicked and against those who help evildoers.

Isaiah 31:3

The Egyptians are human beings, not God, their horses flesh, not spirit; When the Lord stretches forth his hand, the helper shall stumble, the one helped shall fall, and both of them shall perish together.

Isaiah 33:11

You conceive dry grass, bring forth stubble; my spirit shall consume you like fire.

Isaiah 33:12

The peoples shall be burned to lime, thorns cut down to burn in fire.

Isaiah 40:30

Though young men faint and grow weary, and youths stagger and fall,

Isaiah 5:24

Therefore, as the tongue of fire licks up stubble, as dry grass shrivels in the flame, Their root shall rot and their blossom scatter like dust; For they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts, and scorned the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isaiah 5:25

Therefore the wrath of the Lord blazes against his people, he stretches out his hand to strike them; The mountains quake, their corpses shall be like refuse in the streets. For all this, his wrath is not turned back, his hand is still outstretched.

Isaiah 62:5

For as a young man marries a virgin, your Builder shall marry you; And as a bridegroom rejoices in his bride so shall your God rejoice in you.

Isaiah 65:19

I will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying;

Isaiah 9:12

The people do not turn back to the one who struck them, nor do they seek the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 18:21

So now, give their children to famine, deliver them to the power of the sword. Let their wives be childless and widows; let their husbands die of pestilence, their youths be struck down by the sword in battle.

Jeremiah 5:1

Roam the streets of Jerusalem, look about and observe, Search through her squares, to find even one Who acts justly and seeks honesty, and I will pardon her!

Ezekiel 20:33

As I live—oracle of the Lord God—with mighty hand and outstretched arm, with wrath poured out, I swear I will be king over you!

Amos 4:10

I sent upon you pestilence like that of Egypt; with the sword I killed your young men and your captured horses, and to your nostrils I brought the stench of your camps; Yet you did not return to me— oracle of the Lord.

Amos 8:13

On that day, beautiful young women and young men shall faint from thirst,

Micah 7:2

The faithful have vanished from the earth, no mortal is just! They all lie in wait to shed blood, each one ensnares the other.

Zechariah 9:17

Then how good and how lovely! Grain will make the young men flourish, and new wine the young women.

Matthew 12:34

You brood of vipers, how can you say good things when you are evil? For from the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Matthew 16:3

and, in the morning, ‘Today will be stormy, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to judge the appearance of the sky, but you cannot judge the signs of the times.]