Parallel Verses
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.
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
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, as fire, shall devour you.
12
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:6-7
but those of Belial shall all be as thorns to be chased away, whom no one takes with the hand;
Isaiah 27:4
Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would tread them down, I would burn them together.
Isaiah 9:18
For wickedness burns 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 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;
Isaiah 37:36
Then the angel of the LORD went forth and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.
Amos 2:1
Thus hath the LORD said: For three transgressions of Moab and for the fourth, I will not convert her because she burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;