Isaiah 33:12
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
Isaiah 33:12 in other translations
| BSB | The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze. |
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| WEB | The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire. |
| ASV | And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire. |
| YLT | And peoples have been as burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn. |
| DARBY | And the peoples shall be as burnings of lime, as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. |
| BBE | And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire. |
| Webster | And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire. |
What does Isaiah 33:12 mean?
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 33:1-14
God's judgments against the enemies of his church. (Is. 33:1-14) The happiness of his people. (Is. 33:15-24) Verses 1-14 Here we have the proud and false destroyer justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence. The righteous God often pays sinners in their own coin. Those who by faith humbly wait for God, shall find him gracious to them; as the day, so let the strength be. If God leaves us to ourselves any…
Isaiah 33:12 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 33:12
- 2 Samuel 23:6-7
But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
- Isaiah 27:4
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
- Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
- Amos 2:1
Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
- 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 shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
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Context
- Isaiah 33:11
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
- Isaiah 33:12
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
- Isaiah 33:13
Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.
Isaiah 33:12 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Y los pueblos serán como cal quemada: como espinas cortadas serán quemados con fuego. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Et les peuples seront comme la pierre à chaux dans l’ardeur de la fournaise; comme des épines coupées, ils seront consumés dans le feu. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Und die Völker werden zu Kalkbränden, wie abgehauene Dornen, die im Feuer verbrannt werden. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Et erunt populi quasi de incendio cinis; spinæ congregatæ igni comburentur. |