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Isaiah 33:12

10 “Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.

11 You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.

The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.

13 You who are far off, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.
KJV
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
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.
DARBY
And the peoples shall be [as] burnings of lime, [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
BLB
And the people will be [like] the burnings of lime, cut thorns, they will be burned in the fire.
ÅB
Og folkeslag skal bli brent til kalk, de skal bli lik avskårne tornekvister som brennes opp med ild.
OTB
Folkene vil bli brent til kalk, som avskårne tornebusker satt i brann.
B1930
Og folkeslag skal bli brent til kalk, de skal bli lik avskårne tornekvister som opbrennes med ild.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • 2 Samuel 23:6–7

    But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.

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  • Isaiah 27:4

    I am not angry. If only thorns and briers confronted Me, I would march and trample them, I would burn them to the ground.

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  • Isaiah 37:36

    Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

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  • Amos 2:1

    This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.

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  • Isaiah 10:17

    And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.

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  • Isaiah 9:18

    For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets which roll upward in billows of smoke.

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