Isaiah 33:12 “The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set abla…”

Isaiah 33:12

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

And the people shall be as the burning of lime: and as the thornes cut vp, shall they be burnt in the fire.

Darby Translation

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

Young's Literal Translation

And peoples have been [as] burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.

Bible in Basic English

And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.

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Cross references

“the burnings”

Amos 2:1

Amos 2:1 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.

“thorns”

Isaiah 27:4 Isaiah 9:18 Isaiah 37:36 2 Samuel 23:6 2 Samuel 23:7

Isaiah 27:4 · BSB

I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

Isaiah 9:18 · BSB

For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.

Isaiah 37:36 · BSB

Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

2 Samuel 23:6 · BSB

But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

2 Samuel 23:7 · BSB

The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”

Also

Isaiah 10:17

Isaiah 10:17 · BSB

And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.

13You who are far off, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

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