Isaiah 33:12

The peoples will be like the burning of lime, 2 like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire. 1

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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 chaff. 2 You will give birth to stubble. 2 Your breath is a fire that will devour you. 1

13Sh'ma ·Hear obey·, you who are far off, what I have done; 2 and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.” 1

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Cross References

Isaiah 9:17Therefore 'Adonay [Lord] will not rejoice over their young men, 2 neither will he have racham ·compassionate merciful love· on their orphans and widows; 1 for everyone is profane and an evildoer, 2 and every mouth speaks folly. 1 For all this his anger is not turned away, 2 but his hand is stretched out still. 1

Isaiah 10:17The light of Israel [God prevails] will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

Isaiah 37:36Ha mal'ak Yahweh [The Angel of He sustains breathing] went out and struck one hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the camp of the Assyrians. When men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all 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 →

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