Isaiah 33:12 · KJV
“And the people shall be {as} the burnings of lime: {as} thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.”
— Isaiah 33:12
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, {as} fire, shall devour you.
Hear, ye {that are} far off, what I have done; and, ye {that are} near, acknowledge my might.
Isaiah 33 — Context
Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, {as} fire, shall devour you.
12And the people shall be {as} the burnings of lime: {as} thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
13Hear, ye {that are} far off, what I have done; and, ye {that are} near, acknowledge my might.
14The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
Cross References
Isaiah 27:4
Fury {is} not in me: who would set the briers {and} thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together. {go...: or, march against}
2 Samuel 23:6-7
But {the sons} of Belial {shall be} all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:
Amos 2:1
Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away {the punishment} thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up {like} the lifting up of smoke.
Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they {were} all dead corpses.
Isaiah 10:17
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;