Isaiah 9:18-20

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁸ For wickedness burns like a fire,
    it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
    and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
¹⁹ Through the wrath of the Lord of hosts
    the land is burned,
and the people are like fuel for the fire;
    no man spares his brother.
²⁰ They snatch on the right, but are still hungry,
    and they devour on the left, but are not satisfied;
each devours his neighbor’s^[a] flesh,