Isaiah 33:12
And the people will be like the ashes from a fire. They will be consumed by fire like a bundle of thorns.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
In Context
11You will conceive heat. You will give birth to stubble. Your own spirit will devour you like fire.
13“You who are far away, listen to what I have done! And you who are near, acknowledge my strength!”
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:6But all prevaricators shall be plucked out like thorns, yet they are not taken away by hands.
Isaiah 9:17For this reason, the Lord will not rejoice over their youths. And he will not take pity on their orphans and widows. For each one is a hypocrite, and each one is wicked, and every mouth has spoken foolishness. After all this, his fury was not turned away; instead, his hand was still extended.
Isaiah 10:17And the light of Israel will be like a fire, and the Holy One of Israel will be like a flame. And his thorns and briers will be set ablaze and devoured, in one day.
Isaiah 37:36Then the Angel of the Lord went forth and struck down, in the camp of the Assyrians, one hundred eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the morning, and behold, all these were dead bodies.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 33:2-13
Assyria Threatened. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2 O Lord , be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself… Read the whole commentary →