Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down that are burned in the fire.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
Holman Bible
like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.
International Standard Version
And the nations will be burned as if to ashes; like cut thorn bushes, they will be set ablaze.
American Standard Version
And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.
Amplified
“The peoples will be burned to lime,
Like thorns cut down which are burned in the fire.
Bible in Basic English
And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.
Darby Translation
And the peoples shall be as burnings of lime, as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
Julia Smith Translation
And peoples were the burnings of lime; thorns cut down, in fire shall they be burnt
King James 2000
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And [the] peoples will be burning [to] lime-- they are burned [like] thorns [that have been] cut down in the fire.
Modern King James verseion
And the people shall be like the burnings of lime; like thorns cut up, they shall be burned in the fire.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And the people shall be burnt like lime, and as thorns burn that are hewn off, and cast in the fire."
NET Bible
The nations will be burned to ashes; like thorn bushes that have been cut down, they will be set on fire.
New Heart English Bible
The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
The Emphasized Bible
So shall peoples, become, as the burnings of lime, - As thorns lopped off, with fire, shall they be burned.
Webster
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
World English Bible
The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
Youngs Literal Translation
And peoples have been as burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.
Topics
Interlinear
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 33:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lord Warns His Enemies
11 Ye shall conceive chaff. Ye shall bring forth stubble. Your breath is a fire that shall devour you. 12 And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down that are burned in the fire. 13 Hear, ye who are far off, what I have done, and ye who are near, acknowledge my might.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:6-7
But the worthless shall be as thorns to be thrust away, all of them, because they cannot be taken with the hand.
Isaiah 27:4
Wrath is not in me. Would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them. I would burn them together.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns as the fire. It devours the briers and thorns. Yea, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
Isaiah 10:17
And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
Isaiah 37:36
And the agent of LORD went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
Amos 2:1
Thus says LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment of it, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.