Isaiah 33:12 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹² And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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

¹² And the people will be burned as if to lime, like thorns cut down that are burned in the fire.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

Common English Bible

¹² Peoples will be burned to lime, thorns cut up and set ablaze.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² 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

¹² And the people shall be as ashes after a fire: as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.

Isaiah 33:12 Cross References

Psalm 118:12

They surrounded me like bees, they blazed like a fire of thorns; in the name of the Lord I cut them off!

Isaiah 10:17

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.

Isaiah 27:4

I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would set out against them, I would burn them up together.

Isaiah 37:36

And the angel of the Lord went forth, and slew a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord does not rejoice over their young men, and has no compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is godless and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away and his hand is stretched out still.

Isaiah 9:18

For wickedness burns like a fire, it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

Amos 2:1

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.