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Isaiah 33:12
The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
Isaiah 33:12 · World English Bible
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Isaiah 33:12 in other translations
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.
The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
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In context
9 The land mourns and languishes. Lebanon is confounded and withers away. Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel are stripped bare.
10 “Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift myself up. Now I will be exalted.
11 You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
12 The peoples will be like the burning of lime, like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
13 Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and, you who are near, acknowledge my might.”
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?
15 He who walks righteously and speaks blamelessly, he who despises the gain of oppressions, who gestures with his hands, refusing to take a bribe, who stops his ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from looking at evil—
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