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Brother against brother. ORACLE OF JUDGMENT | Burning wickedness and unsatisfied hunger become images of a people consuming itself. Manasseh and Ephraim turn against each other and Judah. The scene conveys the conflict without depicting literal cannibalism.
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Isaiah 9:17-20

Brother against brother

Light and the Coming King · Isaiah 9

Story guide: Brother against brother. ORACLE OF JUDGMENT | Burning wickedness and unsatisfied hunger become images of a people consuming itself.

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17For wickedness burns like a fire; it devours brier and thorn, and it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

18By the wrath of Yahweh of hosts the land is scorched, and the people have become like fuel for the fire; no man spares his brother.

19He cuts on the right, but is hungry; he eats on the left, but is not satisfied. Each one eats the flesh of his own arm.

20Manasseh devours Ephraim, and Ephraim Manasseh; together they are against Judah. For all this his anger has not turned away, and his hand is still stretched out.

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