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^(C1)For wickedness burns like a fire; It consumes briars and thorns; It also sets the thickets of the forest aflame And they roll upward in a column of smoke.

By the ^(C1)wrath of the LORD of armies the ^(C2)land is burned, And the ^(C3)people are like fuel for the fire; No ^(C4)one spares his brother.

^(F1)They devour what is on the right hand but are still ^(C1)hungry, And ^(F2)they eat what is on the left hand, but they are not satisfied; Each of them eats the ^(C2)flesh of his own arm.

Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh, ^(C1)And together they are against Judah. ^(C2)In spite of all this, His anger does not turn away And His hand is still stretched out.