KJV King James Version
And the people shall be [as] the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
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Isaiah 33:12
And the people shall be [as] the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.
WEB World English Bible
The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
ASV American Standard Version
And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
And peoples have been as burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 33
9 The earth mourneth [and] languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their fruits].
10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be [as] the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
13 Hear, ye [that are] far off, what I have done; and, ye [that are] near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
15 He that walketh righteously, and speaketh uprightly; he that despiseth the gain of oppressions, that shaketh his hands from holding of bribes, that stoppeth his ears from hearing of blood, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil;
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2 Samuel 23:6-7But [the sons] of Belial [shall be] all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:Isaiah 27:4Fury [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.Amos 2:1Thus 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 9:18For 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.Isaiah 37:36Then 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.Isaiah 10:17And 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;
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