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Isaiah 9

Isa. 9:18 KJV (With Strong’s)

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For wickedness
rish`ah (Hebrew #7564)
wrong (especially moral)
KJV usage: fault, wickedly(-ness).
Pronounce: rish-aw'
Origin: feminine of 7562
burneth
ba`ar (Hebrew #1197)
to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); also (as denominative from 1198) to be(-come) brutish
KJV usage: be brutish, bring (put, take) away, burn, (cause to) eat (up), feed, heat, kindle, set ((on fire)), waste.
Pronounce: baw-ar'
Origin: a primitive root
d as the fire
'esh (Hebrew #784)
fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
Pronounce: aysh
Origin: a primitive word
: it shall devour
'akal (Hebrew #398)
to eat (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: X at all, burn up, consume, devour(-er, up), dine, eat(-er, up), feed (with), food, X freely, X in...wise(-deed, plenty), (lay) meat, X quite.
Pronounce: aw-kal'
Origin: a primitive root
the briers
shamiyr (Hebrew #8068)
a thorn; also (from its keenness for scratching) a gem, probably the diamond
KJV usage: adamant (stone), brier, diamond.
Pronounce: shaw-meer'
Origin: from 8104 in the original sense of pricking
and thorns
shayith (Hebrew #7898)
scrub or trash, i.e. wild growth of weeds or briers (as if put on the field)
KJV usage: thorns.
Pronounce: shah'-yith
Origin: from 7896
, and shall kindle
yatsath (Hebrew #3341)
to burn or set on fire; figuratively, to desolate
KJV usage: burn (up), be desolate, set (on) fire ((fire)), kindle.
Pronounce: yaw-tsath'
Origin: a primitive root
in the thickets
cbak (Hebrew #5442)
from 5440, a copse
KJV usage: thick(-et).
Pronounce: seb-awk'
of the forest
ya`ar (Hebrew #3293)
a copse of bushes; hence, a forest; hence, honey in the comb (as hived in trees)
KJV usage: (honey-)comb, forest, wood.
Pronounce: yah'-ar
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to thicken with verdure
, and they shall mount up
'abak (Hebrew #55)
probably to coil upward
KJV usage: mount up.
Pronounce: aw-bak'
Origin: a primitive root
like the lifting up
ge'uwth (Hebrew #1348)
the same as 1346
KJV usage: excellent things, lifting up, majesty, pride, proudly, raging.
Pronounce: gay-ooth'
Origin: from 1342
of smoke
`ashan (Hebrew #6227)
smoke, literally or figuratively (vapor, dust, anger)
KJV usage: smoke(-ing).
Pronounce: aw-shawn'
Origin: from 6225
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Mal. 4:1• 1For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal. 4:1)

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Briers,
Fire,
Forest,
Mountain Mount,
Thorns; Thistles

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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wickedness.
Isa. 1:31• 31And the strong shall be for tow, and his work a spark; and they shall both burn together, and there shall be none to quench them. (Isa. 1:31)
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Isa. 30:30,33• 30And Jehovah will cause the majesty of his voice to be heard, and will shew the lighting down of his arm with indignation of anger, and a flame of consuming fire, with waterflood and storm and hailstones.
 33For Topheth is prepared of old; for the king also it is prepared: he hath made it deep and large; its pile is fire and much wood; the breath of Jehovah, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it. (Isa. 30:30,33)
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Isa. 33:12• 12And the peoples shall be as burnings of lime, as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. (Isa. 33:12)
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Isa. 34:8‑10• 8For it is the day of Jehovah's vengeance, the year of recompenses for the controversy of Zion.
 9And the torrents thereof shall be turned into pitch, and its dust into brimstone; yea, the land thereof shall become burning pitch:
 10it shall not be quenched night nor day; the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it for ever and ever. (Isa. 34:8‑10)
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Isa. 66:16‑17• 16For by fire and by his sword will Jehovah enter into judgment with all flesh: and the slain of Jehovah shall be many.
 17They that sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one in the midst; that eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall perish together, saith Jehovah. (Isa. 66:16‑17)
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Num. 11:1‑3• 1And it came to pass that when the people murmured, it was evil in the ears of Jehovah; and Jehovah heard it, and his anger was kindled, and the fire of Jehovah burned among them, and consumed some in the extremity of the camp.
 2And the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Jehovah--and the fire abated.
 3And they called the name of that place Taberah; because a fire of Jehovah burned among them. (Num. 11:1‑3)
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Deut. 32:22• 22For a fire is kindled in mine anger, And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol, And shall consume the earth and its produce, And set fire to the foundations of the mountains. (Deut. 32:22)
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Job 31:11‑12• 11For this is an infamy; yea, it is an iniquity to be judged by the judges:
 12For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all mine increase. (Job 31:11‑12)
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Amos 7:4• 4Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, the Lord Jehovah called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and ate up the inheritance. (Amos 7:4)
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Nah. 1:6,10• 6Who shall stand before his indignation? and who shall abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.
 10Though they be tangled together as thorns, and be as drenched from their drink, they shall be devoured as dry stubble, completely. (Nah. 1:6,10)
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Mal. 4:1• 1For behold, the day cometh, burning as a furnace; and all the proud and all that work wickedness shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, so that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal. 4:1)
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Matt. 13:49‑50• 49Thus shall it be in the completion of the age: the angels shall go forth and sever the wicked from the midst of the just,
 50and shall cast them into the furnace of fire; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 13:49‑50)
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Matt. 25:41• 41Then shall he say also to those on the left, Go from me, cursed, into eternal fire, prepared for the devil and his angels: (Matt. 25:41)
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Mark 9:43‑50• 43And if thy hand serve as a snare to thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having thy two hands to go away into hell, into the fire unquenchable;
 44where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
 45And if thy foot serve as a snare to thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life lame, than having thy two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire unquenchable;
 46where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
 47And if thine eye serve as a snare to thee, cast it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire,
 48where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.
 49For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
 50Salt is good, but if the salt is become saltless, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another. (Mark 9:43‑50)
it shall.
Isa. 10:16‑18• 16Therefore shall the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, send among his fat ones leanness, and under his glory he shall kindle a burning, like the burning of a fire:
 17and the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briars in one day,
 18and it shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body; and they shall be as when a sick man fainteth. (Isa. 10:16‑18)
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Isa. 27:4• 4Fury is not in me. Oh that I had briars and thorns in battle against me! I would march against them, I would burn them together. (Isa. 27:4)
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Heb. 6:8• 8but bringing forth thorns and briars, it is found worthless and nigh to a curse, whose end is to be burned. (Heb. 6:8)
shall kindle.
Ezek. 20:47‑48• 47and say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of Jehovah. Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flashing flame shall not be quenched; and all that it meets from the south to the north shall be burned thereby.
 48And all flesh shall see that I Jehovah have kindled it: it shall not be quenched. (Ezek. 20:47‑48)
mount.
Isa. 5:24• 24Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. (Isa. 5:24)
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Psa. 37:20• 20For the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of Jehovah shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume, like smoke shall they consume away. (Psa. 37:20)
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Hos. 13:3• 3Therefore they shall be as the morning cloud, and as the early dew that passeth away, as the chaff driven with the whirlwind out of the threshing-floor, and as the smoke out of the lattice. (Hos. 13:3)
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Joel 2:20• 20And I will remove far off from you him that cometh from the north, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, his face toward the eastern sea, and his rear toward the hinder sea; and his stench shall come up, and his ill odour shall come up, for he hath exalted himself to do great things. (Joel 2:20)
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Rev. 14:11• 11And the smoke of their torment goes up to ages of ages, and they have no respite day and night who do homage to the beast and to its image, and if any one receive the mark of its name. (Rev. 14:11)
• {v.18-21} Hence further miseries would come upon them and intertribal strife. The wrath of the Lord would darken the land and yet be as a fire and the people as fuel. And still His anger would remain. (“Isaiah 9:8-14:32” by F.B. Hole)

J. N. Darby Translation

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For wickedness burneth as a fire: it devoureth briars and thorns, and kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they go rolling up like a pillar of smoke.