Isaiah 33:12
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.”
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“The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.”
King James Version · Public Domain“And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“And peoples have been <FI>as<Fi> burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Isaiah 33:12 — 8 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 2 Samuel 23:6But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
- Psalms 118:12They swarmed around me like bees, but they were extinguished like burning thorns; in the name of the LORD I cut them off.
- Isaiah 9:17Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.
- Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
- Isaiah 10:17And 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.
- Isaiah 27:4I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
- Isaiah 37:36Then 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!
- Amos 2:1This 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.
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