Isaiah 9:16-18

Revised Geneva Translation

¹⁶ For the leaders of the people cause them to err. And those who are led by them are devoured.

¹⁷ Therefore, the LORD shall have no pleasure in their young men. Nor will He have compassion on their fatherless and on their widows. For everyone is a hypocrite and wicked. And every mouth speaks folly. For all this, His wrath is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

¹⁸ For wickedness burns as a fire. It devours the briers and the thorns, and will kindle in the thick places of the forest. And they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.