The peoples will be like the burning of lime,
like thorns that are cut down and burned in the fire.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Isaiah 33:12 in context
Isaiah 33:9–15
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
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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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