Isaiah 33:12
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
King James Version
In Context
11Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
13Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:6But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
Isaiah 9:17Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10:17And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they 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 →