¹² The peoples will be burned to ashes;^(A)
    like cut thornbushes^(B) they will be set ablaze.^(C)”

⁴     I am not angry.
If only there were briers and thorns confronting me!
    I would march against them in battle;
    I would set them all on fire.^(A)

⁶ But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns,^(A)
    which are not gathered with the hand.
⁷ Whoever touches thorns
    uses a tool of iron or the shaft of a spear;
    they are burned up where they lie.”

“For three sins of Moab,^(A)
    even for four, I will not relent.
Because he burned to ashes^(B)
    the bones of Edom’s king,

¹⁷ The Light of Israel will become a fire,^(A)
    their Holy One^(B) a flame;
in a single day it will burn and consume
    his thorns^(C) and his briers.^(D)

¹⁸ Surely wickedness burns like a fire;^(A)
    it consumes briers and thorns,^(B)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,^(C)
    so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.