Isa 9:18, 37:36 | ESV | STEP | For wickedness burns like a fire ; it consumes briers and thorns ; it kindles the thickets of the forest , and they roll upward in a column of smoke .

b ch. 17:14; 30:31; 31:8; [ch. 10:33; 14:25; 29:5]

Isaiah 9:18

18 For wickedness burns like ^aa fire;
it consumes briers and thorns;
it kindles the thickets of the forest,
and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 37:36

36 ^bAnd the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.