Isaiah 33:12
And the people shall be burnt as lime: as cut-off thorns shall they blaze up in fire.
Leeser Tanakh
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
13Hear, ye distant ones, what I have done; and acknowledge ye that are near my might.
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:6But the godless are all of them as waving thorns, which cannot be taken in the hand;
Isaiah 9:17(9:16) Therefore will the Lord have no joy in their young men, and on their fatherless and widows will he have no mercy; for every one is a hypocrite and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh scandalous words. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand still remaineth stretched out.
Isaiah 10:17And the light of Israel shall become a fire, and his Holy One a flame; and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers on one day.
Isaiah 37:36Then went out an angel of the Lord, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty and five thousand men; and when people arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
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 →