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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.

Isaiah 9:18 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીયશાયા ૯:૧૮
દુષ્ટતા આગની જેમ બળે છે; તે કાંટા અને ઝાંખરાંને બાળી નાખે છે; તે ગીચ જંગલની ઝાડીને પણ બાળી મૂકે છે અને ધુમાડાના ગોટેગોટા આકાશમાં ચઢે છે.
हिन्दीयशायाह ९:१८
क्योंकि दुष्टता आग के समान धधकती है, वह ऊँटकटारों और काँटों को भस्म करती है, वरन् वह घने वन की झाड़ियों में आग लगाती है और वह धुएँ में चकरा-चकराकर ऊपर की ओर उठती है।

In context

16For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.

17Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

18For 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.

19Through the LORD of Armies’ wrath, the land is burned up; and the people are the fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.

20One will devour on the right hand, and be hungry; and he will eat on the left hand, and they will not be satisfied. Everyone will eat the flesh of his own arm:

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