¹⁸ Surely wickedness burns like a fire;^(A)
    it consumes briers and thorns,^(B)
it sets the forest thickets ablaze,^(C)
    so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.

¹⁹ By the wrath^(A) of the Lord Almighty
    the land will be scorched^(B)
and the people will be fuel for the fire;^(C)
    they will not spare one another.^(D)

⁹ Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch,
    her dust into burning sulfur;^(A)
    her land will become blazing pitch!

¹⁰ It will not be quenched^(A) night or day;
    its smoke will rise forever.^(B)
From generation to generation^(C) it will lie desolate;^(D)
    no one will ever pass through it again.