Isaiah 33:12

WEB

¹²The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

KJV

¹²And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

BSB

¹²The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.

FBV

¹²You people will be burned to ashes like thorns that are cut down and thrown into the fire.

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Extra References

Isaiah 27:4

⁴Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.

⁶But all the ungodly will be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can’t be taken with the hand. ⁷The man who touches them must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear. They will be utterly burned with fire in their place.”

Isaiah 9:18

¹⁸For wickedness burns like a fire. It devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 10:17

¹⁷The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

Amos 2:1

¹The LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;

Isaiah 37:36

³⁶Then the LORD’s angel went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.