Isaiah 33:12

Modern

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

Traditional

And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

Literal

And the people will be like the burnings of lime, cut thorns, they will be burned in the fire.

Latin

Et erunt populi quasi de incendio cinis; spinæ congregatæ igni comburentur.

Hebrew

English

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

Theme notes and profiles

2 Samuel 23:6–7
But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.