¹² The peoples shall be as the burning of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

⁶ But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they can't be taken with the hand

⁷ But the man who touches them Must be armed with iron and the staff of a spear: They shall be utterly burned with fire in [their] place

⁴ Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march on them, I would burn them together.

¹⁸ For wickedness burns as the fire; it devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.

¹⁷ The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

³⁶ The angel of Yahweh went forth, and struck in the camp of the Assyrians one hundred and eighty-five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

¹ Thus says Yahweh: "For three transgressions of Moab, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; Because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime;