24  Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble,

and as dry grass sinks down in the flame,

so their root will be as rottenness,

and their blossom go up like dust;

for they have ^qrejected the law of the Lord of hosts,

and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

9  “Yet it was I who destroyed the Amorite before them,

^ewhose height was like the height of the cedars

and who was as strong as the oaks;

I destroyed his fruit above

^fand his roots beneath.