Isaiah 33:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And the peoples will be like the burning of chalk: as thorns cut down, which are burned in the fire.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 23:6-7 : 6 But the evil-doers, all of them, will be like thorns to be pushed away, because they may not be gripped in the hand: 7 But anyone touching them has to be armed with iron and the rod of a spear; and they will be burned with fire, every one of them.
  • Isa 27:4 : 4 My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.
  • Amos 2:1 : 1 These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.
  • Isa 9:18 : 18 For evil was burning like a fire; the blackberries and thorns were burned up; the thick woods took fire, rolling up in dark clouds of smoke.
  • Isa 10:17 : 17 And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.

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    14 As fire burning a wood, and as a flame causing fire on the mountains,

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