Komentarz do Izajasza 9:17

For wickedness has burnt like fire Their wickedness shall burn them and consume them like fire.

For wickedness burneth, etc. The prophet compares the fate of the wicked with the fire which consumes the thing that has produced the fire.

worms and thorns [i.e.,] their [worms and thorns] shall consume their rebels and their transgressors.

Thorns and thistles. The wicked. ויתאבכו Hapax legomenon. And they mount up.

and it kindled in the thickets of the forest in the impoverished segment of the population. “Thicket” refers to the branches.

and they have become entangled by the thickening smoke. They shall become entangled and hemmed in by the strength of the conflagration. Every expression of entanglement has only בך as its radical. Comp. (Job 28:11) “From the recesses (מִבְּכִי) of the rivers”; (Psalms 94:7) “The valley of entanglement (הַבָּכָא).” And the ‘nun’ appears in it sometimes, and here an ‘aleph’ appears in place of the ‘nun,’ like the ‘aleph’ of אִבְחַת, “the howling of the sword” (Ezekiel 21:20), and the ‘aleph’ of וְאַחְוָתִי, “And my speech in your ears” (Job 13:17).