Isaias
Hebrew Bible
Hebrew Bible, Isaias, Ottley, Cambridge, 1904
17 Therefore the Lord shall not rejoice over its young men, neither shall have mercy on its fatherless and widows; for every one thereof is impious and an evil doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
18 For wickedness burned as a fire: briers and thorns it devoured, and it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they were. whirled upward with a lifting-up of smoke.
19 With the wrath of the LORD of Hosts is the land turned black, and the people are become as food for fire; they spared not a man his brother.
20 And one snatched on the right hand, and was hungry; and ate on the left hand, and they were not satisfied: every man the flesh of his arm did they eat:
21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Mahasseh: they together against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
X. 1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to scribes that prescribe oppression: