For those who lead this people lead them astray; and those who are led by them are destroyed.
Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly.
For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
For wickedness burns like a fire.
It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.