Isaiah 33:12

And the people shall be [as] the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

And the people {H5971} shall be as the burnings {H4955} of lime {H7875}: as thorns {H6975} cut up {H3683} shall they be burned {H3341} in the fire {H784}.

The peoples will be as if burned into lime, like thorns cut off to burn in the fire.

The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.

And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

Commentary

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Cross-References

  • 2 Samuel 23:6 (3 votes)

    But [the sons] of Belial [shall be] all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

  • 2 Samuel 23:7 (3 votes)

    But the man [that] shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the [same] place.

  • Isaiah 27:4 (3 votes)

    Fury [is] not in me: who would set the briers [and] thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

  • Isaiah 10:17 (2 votes)

    And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

  • Isaiah 9:18 (2 votes)

    For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up [like] the lifting up of smoke.

  • Amos 2:1 (2 votes)

    ¶ Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

  • Isaiah 37:36 (2 votes)

    Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they [were] all dead corpses.