¹⁸ “For wickedness has burned like a blaze
    that consumes briers and thorns;
it sets thickets of the forest on fire,
    and skyward^[a] they swirl
        in a column of smoke.
¹⁹ From^[b] the wrath of the Lord of the Heavenly Armies
    the land has been scorched,
and the people have become like fuel for the fire;
        no one will spare his neighbor.
²⁰ They cut meat on the right,
    but they’re still hungry,
and they devour also^[c] on the left,
    but they’re not satisfied;
        each devours the flesh of his own children.^[d]
21 Manasseh devours Ephraim,
    and Ephraim devours Manasseh;
together they are against Judah.

“Yet^[e] for all this, his anger has not turned away,
    and his hand is still stretched out, ready to strike.”^[f]