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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 that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. (Mal. 4:1)

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

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Ministry on This Verse

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wickedness.
Isa. 1:31• 31And the strong shall be as tow and his work as a spark; and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them]. (Isa. 1:31)
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Isa. 30:30,33• 30And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with indignation of anger, and a flame of devouring fire, [with] a crashing and tempest and hailstones.
 33For Topheth [is] prepared of old; for the king also it is prepared; he hath made [it] deep [and] large: the pile thereof 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] the 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 streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the dust thereof into brimstone, and the land thereof shall become burning pitch.
 10It shall not be quenched night and day; the smoke thereof shall go up forever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste; none shall pass through it forever and ever. (Isa. 34:8‑10)
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Isa. 66:16‑17• 16For by fire and by his sword will Jehovah plead 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, eating 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• 1{i}And 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.{/i}
 2{i}And the people cried to Moses; and Moses prayed to Jehovah—and the fire abated.{/i}
 3{i}And they called the name of that place Taberah; because a fire of Jehovah burned among them.{/i} (Num. 11:1‑3)
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Deut. 32:22• 22{i}For a fire is kindled in mine anger,{HR}And it shall burn into the lowest Sheol,{HR}And shall consume the earth and its produce,{HR}And set fire to the foundations of the mountains.{HR}{/i} (Deut. 32:22)
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Job 31:11‑12• 11For this [is] an infamy, and that a crime for a judge.
 12For a fire it [is], it consumeth to destruction,{HR}And it would uproot all my increase. (Job 31:11‑12)
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Amos 7:4• 4{i}Thus did the Lord Jehovah show unto me; and behold, the Lord Jehovah called to contend by fire; and it devoured the great deep, and ate up the inheritance.{/i} (Amos 7:4)
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Nah. 1:6,10• 6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? His fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.
 10for while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry. (Nah. 1:6,10)
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Mal. 4:1• 1For, behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven; and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, 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 consummation of the age: the angels shall come forth and sever the wicked from amidst the righteous,
 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, accursed, into the everlasting fire that is prepared for the devil and his angels. (Matt. 25:41)
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Mark 9:43‑50• 43And if thy hand ensnare thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having the two hands to go away into hell, into the fire unquenchable
 44[where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched].
 45And if thy foot ensnare thee, cut it off; it is better for thee to enter into life lame, than having the two feet to be cast into hell, into the fire unquenchable
 46[where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched].
 47And if thine eye ensnare thee, pluck it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye, than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire:
 48where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.
 49{i}For{/i} every one shall be salted with fire, {i}and{/i} every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.
 50Salt is good, but if the salt have 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 standard-bearer fainteth. (Isa. 10:16‑18)
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Isa. 27:4• 4Fury [is] not in me. Oh that I had briars [and] thorns against me in battle! I would march through them, I would burn them together. (Isa. 27:4)
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Heb. 6:8• 8but if bringing forth thorns and briars, [is] worthless and near a curse, whose end [is] for burning. (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 flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt therein.
 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 the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the dry grass sinketh down in the flame, [so] their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because 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{HR}And the enemies of Jehovah as the precious part of lambs :{HR}They have vanished, into smoke they have vanished. (Psa. 37:20)
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Hos. 13:3• 3{i}Therefore 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.{/i} (Hos. 13:3)
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Joel 2:20• 20But I will remove far off from you the northern [army], and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill-savour shall come up, because he hath done great things. (Joel 2:20)
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Rev. 14:11• 11and the smoke of their torment riseth up unto the ages of the ages; and they have no rest day and night, that worship the beast and his image, and if Anyone receiveth the mark of his 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.

W. Kelly Translation

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For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briars and thorns: yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in thick clouds of smoke.