Isaiah 9:18
ESV, NIV, KJV · TruthBound Bible
ESV
For wickedness burns like a fire ; it consumes briers and thorns ; it kindles the thickets of the forest , and they roll upward in a column of smoke .
NIV
Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
KJV
For wickedness burneth as the fire : it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.