Isaiah 9:16-18

Lexham English Bible

¹⁶ And the leaders of this people were misleading them,
    and those who were led were confused.
¹⁷ Therefore the Lord did not rejoice over its young men,
    and he did not have compassion on its orphans and widows,
for everyone was godless and an evildoer,
    and every mouth was speaking folly.
In all of this his anger did not turn away,
    and still his hand is stretched out.
¹⁸ For wickedness burned like fire;
    it consumed brier and thorn.
And it kindled the thickets of the forest,
    and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.