16. (15) For the me'ashrei HaAm HaZeh (leaders of this people) cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.
17. (16) Therefore Adonoi shall have no joy in their bocherim, neither shall have mercy on their yetomim and almanot; for every one is a chanef (g-dless, hypocritical) and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh nevalah (folly). For all this His anger is not turned away, but His yad is upraised still.
18. (17) For wickedness burneth like eish; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall smoke upward like the lifting up of ashan (smoke).
19. (18) Through the Evrat Hashem Tzva'os (Wrath of Hashem of Hosts) is the land darkened, and HaAm shall be ma'acholet eish (food for fire); no ish shall spare his brother.
20. (19) And they grab on the yamin (right hand), and are still hungry; and shall eat on the smol (left hand), and they shall not be satisfied; they shall eat every ish the basar of his own zero'a;
21. (20) Menasheh against Ephrayim; and Ephrayim, Menasheh; they together shall be against Yehudah. For all this His anger is not turned away; His yad is upraised still.