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The peoples shall be as the burning of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.
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Images of Total Destruction
Commentators agree that the images of "burnings of lime" and "thorns cut up" vividly portray the complete and sudden destruction of God's enemies. Just as fire reduces hard limestone to powder and quickly consumes dry thorns, God's judgment upon the arrogant will be total and irreversible, leaving nothing but ashes.
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Isaiah
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And the people – In the army of Sennacherib.
As the burnings of lime – As if placed in a burning lime-kiln, where they must ce…
19th Century
Anglican
And the people shall be ... —The two images of destruction are singularly vivid. The limekiln and the oven which was fed …
16th Century
Protestant
And the peoples shall be the burnings of lime. He compares them to “the burning of lime,” because their hardness will be bruised, as fire …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And the people shall be [as] the burnings of lime Like chalk stones that are burnt to make lime of; which may denote not …
Here we have the proud and false destroyer justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence. The righteous God often pays sinners in their own c…
13th Century
Catholic
1. Woe to you who plunder. In this part, the prophet begins to foretell the destruction of Israel’s enemies. This is presented in t…
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