“Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust, because they have rejected the law of the LORD of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.”

Reading this verse in context

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Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.