Verse 12

The peoples will be burned as if to lime, like cut thorns set ablaze in the fire.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 23:6-7 : 6 But wicked people are like thorns cast aside, for they cannot be gathered with the hand. 7 Anyone who touches them must arm himself with iron or the shaft of a spear, and they are burned up completely where they lie.
  • Isa 27:4 : 4 I am not angry. If only there were briers and thorns confronting me, I would march against them in battle and completely burn them together.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies.
  • Amos 2:1 : 1 This is what the LORD says: 'For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because they burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.'
  • Isa 9:18 : 18 By the wrath of the LORD Almighty, the land is scorched, and the people are like fuel for the fire; no one spares his brother.
  • Isa 10:17 : 17 The Light of Israel will become a fire, their Holy One a flame; it will burn and devour his thorns and briars in a single day.