12The peoples will be burned as if to lime; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze."


In Context

9 The land mourns and wastes away, Lebanon is ashamed and withers; Sharon is like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel drop their leaves.

10 "Now will I arise," says the Lord . "Now will I be exalted; now will I be lifted up.

11 You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes you.

12 The peoples will be burned as if to lime; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze."

13 You who are far away, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge my power!

14 The sinners in Zion are terrified; trembling grips the godless: "Who of us can dwell with the consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting burning?"

Isaiah 33:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

33:12And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

33:12And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

33:12And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

33:12And the peoples shall be as burnings of lime, as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

33:12And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

33:12And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

33:12The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

33:12And peoples have been as burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

33:12And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.