And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.”
I have no wrath. Would that I had thorns and briers to battle! I would march against them, I would burn them up together.
But worthless men are all like thorns that are thrown away, for they cannot be taken with the hand; but the man who touches them arms himself with iron and the shaft of a spear, and they are utterly consumed with fire.”
Thus says the Lord: “For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke the punishment, because he burned to lime the bones of the king of Edom.
And the angel of the Lord went out and struck down 185,000 in the camp of the Assyrians. And when people arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.
The light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame, and it will burn and devour his thorns and briers in one day.
For wickedness burns like a fire; it consumes briers and thorns; it kindles the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
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