¹⁷ Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men,^(A)
    nor will he pity^(B) the fatherless and widows,
for everyone is ungodly^(C) and wicked,^(D)
    every mouth speaks folly.^(E)

Yet for all this, his anger is not turned away,
    his hand is still upraised.^(F)

¹⁸ Surely wickedness burns like a fire;^(G)
    it consumes briers and thorns,^(H)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,^(I)
    so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
¹⁹ By the wrath^(J) of the Lord Almighty
    the land will be scorched^(K)
and the people will be fuel for the fire;^(L)
    they will not spare one another.^(M)