16 Those who guide(A) this people mislead them,
    and those who are guided are led astray.(B)
17 Therefore the Lord will take no pleasure in the young men,(C)
    nor will he pity(D) the fatherless and widows,
for everyone is ungodly(E) and wicked,(F)
    every mouth speaks folly.(G)

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

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

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16 For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

17 Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

18 For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

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