Parallel Verses
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."
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.
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 stubble, and bear straw, and your spirit shall be the fire, that it may consume you. 12 And the people shall be burnt like lime, and as thorns burn that are hewn off, and cast in the fire." 13 Now hearken to, ye that are far off, how I do with them; and consider my glory, ye that be at hand.
Phrases
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:6-7
when the unthrifty men are all of them as thorns taken out of their places, which cannot be taken with hands.
Isaiah 27:4
I hear no evil will in my mind. Who will compel me that I, greatly forgetting all faithfulness, should burn it up at once with thorns and bushes?
Isaiah 9:18
For the ungodly burn, as a fire in the briers and thorns: And as it were out of a fire in a wood or a red bush, so ascendeth the smoke of their pride.
Isaiah 10:17
But the light of Israel shall be that fire, and his Sanctuary shall be the flame, and it shall kindle, and burn up his thorns and briers in one day.
Isaiah 37:36
Thus the angel went forth, and slew of the Assyrians host, a hundred and eighty five thousand. And when men arose up early, at Jerusalem: Behold, all lay full of dead bodies.
Amos 2:1
Thus sayeth the LORD, 'For three and four wickednesses of Moab, I will not spare him: because he burnt the bones of the king of Edom to ashes.