Burneth — Shall burn you, as it follows, shall devour. Thorns — The low and mean persons; for these are opposed to the thickets of the forest, in the next clause. Forest — In the wood, where the trees are tall, and stand thick, having their bows entangled together, which makes them more ready both to catch and to spread the fire. Smoak — Sending up smoak like a vast furnace.
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Isaiah 9:18
18 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.