Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Shall kindle

Bible References

Wickedness

Isaiah 1:31
The strong one will become tinder,
and his work a spark;
both will burn together,
with no one to quench the flames.
Isaiah 30:30
And the Lord will make the splendor of His voice heard
and reveal His arm striking in angry wrath
and a flame of consuming fire,
in driving rain, a torrent, and hailstones.
Isaiah 33:12
The peoples will be burned to ashes,
like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.
Isaiah 34:8
For the Lord has a day of vengeance,
a time of paying back Edom
for its hostility against Zion.
Isaiah 66:16
For the Lord will execute judgment
on all flesh with His fiery sword,
and many will be slain by the Lord.
Numbers 11:1
Now the people began complaining openly before the Lord about hardship. When the Lord heard, His anger burned, and fire from the Lord blazed among them and consumed the outskirts of the camp.
Deuteronomy 32:22
For fire has been kindled because of My anger
and burns to the depths of Sheol;
it devours the land and its produce,
and scorches the foundations of the mountains.
Job 31:11
For that would be a disgrace;
it would be a crime deserving punishment.
Amos 7:4
The Lord God showed me this: The Lord God was calling for a judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
Nahum 1:6
Who can withstand His indignation?
Who can endure His burning anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
even rocks are shattered before Him.
Malachi 4:1
“For indeed, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and everyone who commits wickedness will become stubble. The coming day will consume them,” says the Lord of Hosts, “not leaving them root or branches.
Matthew 13:49
So it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out, separate the evil people from the righteous,
Matthew 25:41
Then He will also say to those on the left, ‘Depart from Me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the Devil and his angels!
Mark 9:43
And if your hand causes your downfall, cut it off. It is better for you to enter life maimed than to have two hands and go to hell—the unquenchable fire,

It shall

Isaiah 10:16
Therefore the Lord God of Hosts
will inflict an emaciating disease
on the well-fed of Assyria,
and He will kindle a burning fire
under its glory.
Isaiah 27:4
I am not angry,
but if it produces thorns and briers for Me,
I will fight against it, trample it,
and burn it to the ground.
Hebrews 6:8
But if it produces thorns and thistles, it is worthless and about to be cursed, and will be burned at the end.

Shall kindle

Ezekiel 20:47
and say to the forest there: Hear the word of the Lord! This is what the Lord God says: I am about to ignite a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The blazing flame will not be extinguished, and every face from the south to the north will be scorched by it.

Mount

Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw
and as dry grass shrivels in the flame,
so their roots will become like something rotten
and their blossoms will blow away like dust,
for they have rejected
the instruction of the Lord of Hosts,
and they have despised
the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 37:20
But the wicked will perish;
the Lord’s enemies, like the glory of the pastures,
will fade away—
they will fade away like smoke.
Hosea 13:3
Therefore, they will be like the morning mist,
like the early dew that vanishes,
like chaff blown from a threshing floor,
or like smoke from a window.
Joel 2:20
I will drive the northerner far from you
and banish him to a dry and desolate land,
his front ranks into the Dead Sea,
and his rear guard into the Mediterranean Sea.
His stench will rise;
yes, his rotten smell will rise,
for he has done catastrophic things.
Revelation 14:11
and the smoke of their torment will go up forever and ever. There is no rest day or night for those who worship the beast and his image, or anyone who receives the mark of his name.

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