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Isaiah 9:16-18
International Standard Version
Isaiah 9:16-18
International Standard Version
16 For those who guide this people have been leading them astray,
and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
17 Therefore the Lord does not have pity on[a] their young men,
and has no compassion on their orphans[b] and widows,
because each of them was godless and an evildoer,
and every mouth spoke folly.
“Yet[c] for all this, his anger has not turned away,
and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.[d]
18 “For wickedness has burned like a blaze
that consumes briers and thorns;
it sets thickets of the forest on fire,
and skyward[e] they swirl
in a column of smoke.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 9:17 So 1QIsaa;MT LXX read rejoice over
- Isaiah 9:17 Or fatherless
- Isaiah 9:17 So 1QIsaa 4QIsac; the Heb. lacks Yet
- Isaiah 9:17 DSS MT lack ready to strike
- Isaiah 9:18 Lit. upward
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