Isaiah 33:12
And the people shall be as the burning of lime: and as the thornes cut vp, shall they be burnt in the fire.
Geneva Bible 1599
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 conceiue chaffe, and bring forth stubble: the fire of your breath shall deuoure you.
13Heare, yee that are farre off, what I haue done, and ye that are neere, know my power.
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:6But the wicked shalbe euery one as thornes thrust away, because they can not be taken with handes.
Isaiah 9:17Therefore shall the Lord haue no pleasure in their yong men, neither will he haue compassion of their fatherlesse and of their widowes: for euery one is an hypocrite and wicked, and euery mouth speaketh follie: yet for all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out stil.
Isaiah 10:17And the light of Israel shalbe as a fire, and the Holy one thereof as a flame, and it shall burne, and deuoure his thornes and his briers in one day:
Isaiah 37:36Then the Angel of the Lord went out, and smote in the campe of Asshur an hundreth, fourescore, and fiue thousand: so when they arose early in the morning, beholde, 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 →