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)

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