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 - Revised Standard Version And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.” Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would set out against them, I would burn them up together.
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.
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.
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.
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.