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Isaiah 33:12
12The peoples will be burned to ashes; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.”
Isaiah 33:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
- English Standard Version (ESV)And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire."
- New King James Version (NKJV)And the people shall be like the burnings of lime; Like thorns cut up they shall be burned in the fire.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Your people will be burned up completely, like thornbushes cut down and tossed in a fire.
Context of Isaiah 33:12
10“Now will I arise,” says the Lord. “Now will I be exalted; now will I be lifted up. 11You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes you. The peoples will be burned to ashes; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.” 13You who are far away, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge my power! 14The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: “Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?”
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וְהָי֥וּ עַמִּ֖ים מִשְׂרְפ֣וֹת שִׂ֑יד קוֹצִ֥ים כְּסוּחִ֖ים בָּאֵ֥שׁ יִצַּֽתּוּ׃ סRead the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 33:12
- Amos 2:1This is what the Lord says: “For three sins of Moab, even for four, I will not relent. Because he burned to ashes the bones of Edom’s king,
- Isaiah 9:18Surely wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns, it sets the forest thickets ablaze, so that it rolls upward in a column of smoke.
- Isaiah 27:4I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle; I would set them all on fire.
- Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies!
- 2 Samuel 23:6But evil men are all to be cast aside like thorns, which are not gathered with the hand.
Commentaries on Isaiah 33:12
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12And the people - In the army of Sennacherib. As the burnings of lime - As if placed in a burning lime-kiln, where they must certainly be destroyed (see Isaiah 30:33; compare Amos 2:1). As thorns cut up - As thorns, or small brushwood, that has been long cut up and perfectly dried are speedily consumed, so shall it be with the Assyrian army. This is an image like many that are employed, denoting that the destruction of the army of the Assyrians would be…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. (Is 9:19; Am 2:1). Perhaps alluding to their being about to be burnt on the funeral pyre (Is 30:33). thorns--the wicked (2Sa 23:6, 7).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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