Isaiah 33:12

And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime; 1 as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the eish. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

11Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth straw; 1 your ruach (breath), as eish, shall devour you. 1

13Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; 1 and, ye that are near, acknowledge My gevurah (might). 1

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Cross References

2 Samuel 23:6But the Bnei Beliyaal + 23:6 rebellious shall be all of them 1 as kotz (thorns) thrust away, 1 because they cannot be gathered with hands; 1

Isaiah 9:17For wickedness burneth like eish; 1 it shall devour the briers and thorns, 1 and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, 1 and they shall smoke upward like the lifting up of ashan (smoke). 1

Isaiah 10:17And the Ohr Yisroel shall become an eish, 1 and His Kadosh a flame; 1 and shall burn and consume its thistles 1 and its thorns in Yom Echad; 1

Isaiah 37:36Then the Malach Hashem went forth, and struck down in the Machaneh Ashur a hundred and fourscore and five elef; and when they arose early in the boker, hinei, they were all pegarim mesim (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 →

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