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Isaiah 33:12
Isaiah 33:12 is verse 12 of Isaiah chapter 33, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.
King James Version
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
World English Bible
The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
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Isaiah 33:10–14 · Berean Standard Bible
10 “Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.
11 You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
12 The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.
13 You who are far off, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge My might.”
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Amos 2:1This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.
Isaiah 9:18For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.
Isaiah 27:4I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.
Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!
2 Samuel 23:6But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
2 Samuel 23:7The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”