Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.

Cross References (26)

  • Malachi 4:1 (4)

    “For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the da

  • Psalms 83:14 (4)

    As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

  • Nahum 1:10 (3)

    For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.

  • Isaiah 34:8–10 (3)

    For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for the cause of Zion.

  • Isaiah 5:24 (3)

    Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and

  • Numbers 11:1–3 (2)

    Soon the people began to complain about their hardship in the hearing of the LORD, and when He heard them, His anger was

  • Isaiah 1:31 (2)

    The strong man will become tinder and his work will be a spark; both will burn together, with no one to quench the flame

  • Isaiah 27:4 (2)

    I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground

  • Hosea 13:3 (2)

    Therefore they will be like the morning mist, like the early dew that vanishes, like chaff blown from a threshing floor,

  • Mark 9:43–50 (2)

    If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life crippled than to have two hands and go in

  • Amos 7:4 (2)

    This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devou

  • Isaiah 10:16–18 (2)

    Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be k

  • Isaiah 30:30 (2)

    And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a

  • Isaiah 30:33 (2)

    For Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty

  • Isaiah 33:12 (2)

    The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.

  • Revelation 14:11 (2)

    And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who worship the beast an

  • Ezekiel 20:47–48 (2)

    Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a

  • Psalms 37:20 (2)

    But the wicked and enemies of the LORD will perish like the glory of the fields. They will vanish; like smoke they will

  • Job 31:11–12 (2)

    For that would be a heinous crime, an iniquity to be judged.

  • Matthew 25:41 (2)

    Then He will say to those on His left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil

  • Nahum 1:6 (2)

    Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are s

  • Isaiah 66:16–17 (2)

    For by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.

  • Joel 2:20 (2)

    The northern army I will drive away from you, banishing it to a barren and desolate land, its front ranks into the Easte

  • Deuteronomy 32:22 (2)

    For a fire has been kindled by My anger, and it burns to the depths of Sheol; it consumes the earth and its produce, and

  • Matthew 13:49–50 (2)

    So will it be at the end of the age: The angels will come and separate the wicked from the righteous

  • Hebrews 6:8 (2)

    But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.