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Isaiah 33:12
12Your people will be burned up completely, like thornbushes cut down and tossed in a fire.
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.
- New International Version (NIV)The peoples will be burned to ashes; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.”
- 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.
Context of Isaiah 33:12
10But the Lord says: “Now I will stand up. Now I will show my power and might. 11You Assyrians produce nothing but dry grass and stubble. Your own breath will turn to fire and consume you. Your people will be burned up completely, like thornbushes cut down and tossed in a fire. 13Listen to what I have done, you nations far away! And you that are near, acknowledge my might!” 14The sinners in Jerusalem shake with fear. Terror seizes the godless. “Who can live with this devouring fire?” they cry. “Who can survive this all-consuming fire?”
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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: “The people of Moab have sinned again and again, and I will not let them go unpunished! They desecrated the bones of Edom’s king, burning them to ashes.
- Isaiah 9:18This wickedness is like a brushfire. It burns not only briers and thorns but also sets the forests ablaze. Its burning sends up clouds of smoke.
- Isaiah 27:4My anger will be gone. If I find briers and thorns growing, I will attack them; I will burn them up—
- Isaiah 37:36That night the angel of the Lord went out to the Assyrian camp and killed 185,000 Assyrian soldiers. When the surviving Assyrians woke up the next morning, they found corpses everywhere.
- 2 Samuel 23:6But the godless are like thorns to be thrown away, for they tear the hand that touches them.
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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