Tree of Life Version
Isaiah 33:12
12Then peoples will be burned as lime, like thorns cut down, burned in the 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
10“Now I will arise,” says Adonai. “Now I will be exalted. Now I will lift Myself up. 11You conceive chaff, you will give birth to stubble. My breath is a fire that will consume you. Then peoples will be burned as lime, like thorns cut down, burned in the fire. 13Hear, you who are afar off, what I have done, and you who are near, acknowledge My might.” 14Sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless: “Who among us can live with the consuming fire?” “Who among us can live with everlasting burnings?”
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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 2:1Thus says Adonai: For three crimes of Moab even for four, I will not relent. For he burned the bones of Edom’s king to lime,
- Isaiah 9:18By the wrath of Adonai-Tzva’ot is the land burnt up; The people are as fuel for the fire. No one spares his brother.
- Isaiah 27:4It is not that I have wrath. Who would give me thorns and thistles? Into battle I would march against them! I would burn them up altogether!
- Isaiah 37:36Then the angel of Adonai went out and struck down 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When the men arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
- 2 Samuel 23:6But the worthless, all of them will be thrust aside like thorns, for they cannot be picked up by 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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