They surrounded me like bees; they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
Isaiah 33:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down that are burned in the fire.” Flere versionerKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And the people will be burned as if to lime, like thorns cut down that are burned in the fire. American Standard Version (1901) And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire. Common English Bible Peoples will be burned to lime, thorns cut up and set ablaze. Catholic Public Domain Version And the people will be like the ashes from a fire. They will be consumed by fire like a bundle of thorns. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the people shall be as ashes after a fire: as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt with fire. |
They surrounded me like bees; they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!
The light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
I have no wrath. If it gives me thorns and briers, I will march to battle against it. I will burn it up.
Then the angel of the Lord set out and struck down one hundred eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; when morning dawned, they were all dead bodies.
That is why the Lord did not have pity on their young people or compassion on their orphans and widows, for everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke folly. For all this his anger has not turned away; his hand is stretched out still.
For wickedness burned like a fire, consuming briers and thorns; it kindled the thickets of the forest, and they swirled upward in a column of smoke.
Thus says the Lord: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.