Isaiah 9:18

^aFor wickedness burns like a fire;

It consumes briars and thorns;

It even sets the thickets of the forest aflame,

And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 10:17

And the ^alight of Israel will become a fire and his ^bHoly One a flame,

And it will ^cburn and devour his thorns and his briars in a single day.

^aBut the vile men, every one of them will be thrust away like thorns,

Because they cannot be taken in hand;