17. For wickedness burns like fire,devouring brier and thorn;It kindles the forest thickets,which go up in columns of smoke.
18. At the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land quakes,and the people are like fuel for fire;no one spares his brother.
19. They hack on the right, but remain hungry;they devour on the left, but are not filled.Each devours the flesh of the neighbor;
20. Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh,together they turn on Judah.For all this, his wrath is not turned back,his hand is still outstretched!