Isa 9:18 | ESV | STEP | 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 .

‏ Isaiah 9:18

18 For wickedness burns like ^aa fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.