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Isaiah 9:18

The Pulpit Commentary on Isaiah 9:18

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

Wickedness burneth as the fire; i.e. the contagion of wickedness overspreads a whole nation in the same rapid way that fire spreads over a field of stubble or a forest. They shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke; rather, they—i.

e; the forest thickets—shall be whirled upward with the uplifting of smoke. The burning thickets shall mount up with the volumes of smoke into the air, and hang there as a murky but lurid pall. The flames of wickedness give no light to a land, but lunge it in heavy, hopeless gloom.

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