24 Therefore, (A)as a tongue of fire consumes stubble,
And dry grass collapses in the flame,
So their (B)root will become (C)like rot, and their blossom [a]blow away like dust;
For they have (D)rejected the Law of the Lord of armies,
And discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 5:24 Lit ascend

16 (A)Ephraim is stricken, their root is dried up,
They will produce (B)no fruit.
Even though they give birth to children,
I will put to death the (C)precious ones of their womb.

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“Yet it was I who destroyed the (A)Amorite before them,
[a]Though his (B)height was like the height of cedars
And he was as strong as the oaks;
I also destroyed his (C)fruit above and his roots below.

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  1. Amos 2:9 Lit Whose height

Final Admonition

[a]For behold, the day is coming, (A)burning like a furnace; and all the arrogant and every evildoer will be (B)chaff; and the day that is coming will (C)set them ablaze,” says the Lord of armies, “so that it will leave them neither root nor branches.

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Footnotes

  1. Malachi 4:1 Ch 3:19 in Heb

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