Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

His flesh wastes away from sight, and his bones, which were not seen, are easily visible.

Smoke ascended from his nose; fire devoured as it came from his mouth; he hurled down fiery coals.

Have mercy on me, for I am in distress! My eyes grow dim from suffering. I have lost my strength.

Why do you remain inactive? Intervene and destroy him!

The one who sows iniquity will reap trouble, and the rod of his fury will end.

The sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, is certainly ready to carry out the decreed destruction throughout the land.

Not even Lebanon could supply enough firewood for a sacrifice; its wild animals would not provide enough burnt offerings.

My message is like a fire that purges dross! It is like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces! I, the Lord, so affirm it!

because they will lack bread and water. Each one will be terrified, and they will rot for their iniquity.

Pile up the bones, kindle the fire; cook the meat well, mix in the spices, let the bones be charred.

I will be like a moth to Ephraim, like wood rot to the house of Judah.

All of them are blazing like an oven; they devour their rulers. All of their kings fall – and none of them call on me!

God gives a man riches, property, and wealth so that he lacks nothing that his heart desires, yet God does not enable him to enjoy the fruit of his labor – instead, someone else enjoys it! This is fruitless and a grave misfortune.

Therefore, as flaming fire devours straw, and dry grass disintegrates in the flames, so their root will rot, and their flower will blow away like dust. For they have rejected the law of the Lord who commands armies, they have spurned the commands of the Holy One of Israel.

and say to the scrub land of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of the Lord: This is what the sovereign Lord says: Look here, I am about to start a fire in you, and it will devour every green tree and every dry tree in you. The flaming fire will not be extinguished, and the whole surface of the ground from the Negev to the north will be scorched by it.

On that day I will make the leaders of Judah like an igniter among sticks and a burning torch among sheaves, and they will burn up all the surrounding nations right and left. Then the people of Jerusalem will settle once more in their place, the city of Jerusalem.

It must be eaten on the day of your sacrifice and on the following day, but what is left over until the third day must be burned up.

Joshua and the Israelites almost totally wiped them out, but some survivors did escape to the fortified cities.