Isaiah 33:12 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹² And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime: as 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.

Isaiah 33:12 Cross References

Isaiah 27:4

Fury is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.

Amos 2:1

Thus saith the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

Isaiah 37:36

And the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

Isaiah 10:17

And 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 9:18

For wickedness burneth as the fire; it devoureth the briers and thorns: yea, it kindleth in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in thick clouds of smoke.

Psalm 118:12

They compassed me about like bees; they are quenched as the fire of thorns: In the name of the LORD I will cut them off.

Isaiah 9:17

Therefore the Lord shall not rejoice over their young men, neither shall he have compassion on their fatherless and widows: for every one is profane and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.