Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

And the nations will be burned as if to ashes; like cut thorn bushes, they will be set ablaze.

New American Standard Bible

“The peoples will be burned to lime,
Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire.

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

The peoples will be burned to ashes,
like thorns cut down and burned in a fire.

A Conservative Version

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

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And the people
עם 
`am 
Usage: 1867

shall be as the burnings
משׂרפה 
Misraphah 
Usage: 2

of lime
שׂיד 
Siyd 
Usage: 4

as thorns
קץ קוץ 
Qowts 
Usage: 12

cut up
כּסח 
Kacach 
cut up, cut down
Usage: 2

יצת 
Yatsath 
Usage: 29

References

American

Easton

Fausets

Hastings

Morish

Smith

Watsons

Context Readings

The Lord Warns His Enemies

11 You conceive dried grass, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you. 12 And the nations will be burned as if to ashes; like cut thorn bushes, they will be set ablaze. 13 "Those who are far away have heard what I've done; and those that are near have acknowledged my power.

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:6-7

But ungodly men are like thorns that are discarded because they cannot be safely handled.

Isaiah 27:4

I am not angry. If only the vineyard could give me briers and thorns to battle, I would march against it, and I would burn it all up.

Isaiah 9:18

"For wickedness has burned like a blaze that consumes briers and thorns; it sets thickets of the forest on fire, and skyward they swirl in a column of smoke.

Isaiah 10:17

"The light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame, and it will burn and consume Assyria's thorns and briers in a single day.

Isaiah 37:36

After this, the angel of the LORD went out and put to death 185,000 men in the Assyrian camp. When Hezekiah's army awakened in the morning there were all the dead bodies!

Amos 2:1

This is what the LORD says: "For three transgressions of Moab because they cremated the bones of the king of Edom, burning them to lime.

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