Thus says Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn back from punishing it, for he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

For wickedness burns like the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall billow up in a column of smoke.

Fury is not in Me; who would set the briers and thorns against Me in battle? I would march through them; I would burn them together.

Then the angel of Jehovah went out and struck a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of Assyria. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

But the sons of worthlessness shall all be as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with the hand.

But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they shall be burned with fire to be burned in their place.