Isaiah 33:12
Good News Translation
You will crumble like rocks burned to make lime, like thorns burned to ashes.

New Revised Standard Version
And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”

Contemporary English Version
You will be burned to ashes like thorns in a fire.

New American Bible
The peoples shall be burned to lime, thorns cut down to burn in fire.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.

the burnings

Amos 2:1 Thus saith the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four I will not convert him: because he hath burnt the bones of the king of Edom even to ashes.

thorns

Isaiah 9:18 For wickedness is kindled as a fire, it shall devour the brier and the thorn: and shall kindle in the thicket of the forest, and it shall be wrapped up in smoke ascending on high.

Isaiah 27:4 There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire together?

Isaiah 37:36 And the angel of the Lord went out and slew in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And they arose in the morning, and behold they were all dead corpses.

2 Samuel 23:6,7 But transgressors shall all of them be plucked up as thorns: which are not taken away with hands. . . .

Context
The LORD is Exalted
11You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you. 12And the people shall be as ashes after a fire, as a bundle of thorns they shall be burnt with fire.13Hear, you that are far off, what I have done, and you that are near know my strength.…
Cross References
2 Samuel 23:6
But transgressors shall all of them be plucked up as thorns: which are not taken away with hands.

2 Samuel 23:7
And if a man will touch them, he must be armed with iron and with the staff of a lance: but they shall be set on fire and burnt to nothing.

Isaiah 10:17
And the light of Israel shall be as a fire, and the Holy One thereof as a flame: and his thorns and his briers shall be set on fire, and shall be devoured in one day.

Isaiah 27:4
There is no indignation in me: who shall make me a thorn and a brier in battle: shall I march against it, shall, I set it on fire together?

Isaiah 33:11
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