¹⁸ For wickedness burns like a fire^(A)
that consumes thorns and briers
and kindles the forest thickets
so that they go up in a column of smoke.
¹⁹ The land is scorched
by the wrath of the Lord of Hosts,
and the people are like fuel for the fire.^(B)
No one has compassion on his brother.^(C)