Parallel Verses

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.

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

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 chaff and you give birth to straw. Your strength will be in vain. Fire will consume you. 12 “The peoples will be burned to lime,
Like cut thorns which are burned in the fire.
13 You who are far away hear what I have done. You who are near will acknowledge (comprehend) (recognize) my power!

Cross References

2 Samuel 23:6-7

All the evildoers will be like thorns to be pushed away. They may not be gripped in the hand:

Isaiah 27:4

I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me! I would march against them in battle. I would set them all on fire.

Isaiah 9:18

This wickedness is like a brushfire. It burns not only briers and thorns but the forests, too. It sends up vast clouds of smoke.

Isaiah 10:17

The Light of Israel will become a fire and his Holy One a flame. It will burn and consume his thorns and his briers in a single day!

Isaiah 37:36

The angel of Jehovah put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. The people got up the next morning and saw all the dead bodies!

Amos 2:1

Jehovah said: I will not withdraw punishment for the many transgressions of Moab. He burned the bones of the king of Edom to lime.

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