Verse 12

The people will be burned to lime; like thorns cut up, they will be burned in the fire.

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Referenced Verses

  • 2 Sam 23:6-7 : 6 But the sons of Belial shall all be as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands: 7 But the man who touches them must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.
  • Isa 27:4 : 4 Fury is not in Me: who would set briers and thorns against Me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.
  • Isa 37:36 : 36 Then the angel of the LORD went forth, and struck down in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.
  • Amos 2:1 : 1 Thus says the LORD: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:
  • Isa 9:18 : 18 For wickedness burns like the fire; it will devour the briers and thorns and will kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they will mount up like the lifting up of smoke.
  • Isa 10:17 : 17 And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;