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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Isaiah 1:31 Catholic Bible: Just as straw is set on fire by a spark, so powerful people will be destroyed by their own evil deeds, and no one will be able to stop the destruction. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/isaiah/1-31.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/isaiah/1-31.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/isaiah/1-31.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/1.htm">Isaiah</a> > <a href="/gntd/isaiah/1.htm">Chapter 1</a> > Verse 31</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../isaiah/1-30.htm" title="Isaiah 1:30">◄</a> Isaiah 1:31 <a href="../isaiah/2-1.htm" title="Isaiah 2:1">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/isaiah/1.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/isaiah/1.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Just as straw is set on fire by a spark, so powerful people will be destroyed by their own evil deeds, and no one will be able to stop the destruction. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />The strong shall become like tinder, and their work like a spark; they and their work shall burn together, with no one to quench them.<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/isaiah/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Your strongest leaders will be like dry wood set on fire by their idols. No one will be able to help, as they all go up in flames. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/1.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />The strong tree shall turn to tinder, and the one who tends it shall become a spark; Both of them shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench them. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.</p><p class="hdg">the strong</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/32-21.htm">Ezekiel 32:21</a> The most mighty among the strong ones shall speak to him from the midst of hell, they that went down with his helpers and slept uncircumcised, slain by the sword.</p><p class="hdg">as tow</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/27-4.htm">Isaiah 27:4</a> 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?</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/43-17.htm">Isaiah 43:17</a> Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the strong: they lay down to sleep together, and they shall not rise again: they are broken as flax, and are extinct.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/50-11.htm">Isaiah 50:11</a> Behold all you that kindle a fire, encompassed with flames, walk in the light of your fire, and in the flames which you have kindled: this is done to you by my hand, you shall sleep in sorrows.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../judges/15-14.htm">Judges 15:14</a> Now when he was come to the place of the Jawbone, and the Philistines shouting went to meet him, the Spirit of the Lord came strongly upon him: and as flax is wont to be consumed at the approach of fire, so the bands with which he was bound were broken and loosed.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/6-14.htm">Revelation 6:14-17</a> And the heaven departed as a book folded up. And every mountain, and the islands, were moved out of their places. . . . </p><p class="hdg">the maker of it.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/34-9.htm">Isaiah 34:9,10</a> And the streams thereof shall be turned into pitch, and the ground thereof into brimstone: and the land thereof shall become burning pitch. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/66-24.htm">Isaiah 66:24</a> And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched: and they shall be a loathsome sight to all flesh.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../ezekiel/20-47.htm">Ezekiel 20:47,48</a> And say to the south forest: Hear the word of the Lord: Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I will kindle a fire in thee, and will burn in thee every green tree, and every dry tree: the flame of the fire shall not be quenched: and every face shall be burned in it, from the south even to the north. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../malachi/4-1.htm">Malachi 4:1</a> For behold the day shall come kindled as a furnace: and all the proud, and all that do wickedly shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall set them on fire, saith the Lord of hosts, it shall not leave them root, nor branch.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../matthew/3-10.htm">Matthew 3:10</a> For now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that doth not yield good fruit, shall be cut down, and cast into the fire.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../mark/9-43.htm">Mark 9:43-49</a> And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into unquenchable fire: . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/14-10.htm">Revelation 14:10,11</a> He also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mingled with pure wine in the cup of his wrath: and shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the sight of the holy angels and in the sight of the Lamb. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/19-20.htm">Revelation 19:20</a> And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/20-10.htm">Revelation 20:10</a> And the false prophet shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.</p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/isaiah/1.htm">The Corruption of Zion</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">30</span>When you shall be as an oak with the leaves falling off, and as a garden without water. <span class="reftext">31</span><span class="highl">And your strength shall be as the ashes of tow, and your work as a spark: and both shall burn together, and there shall be none to quench it.</span><div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../matthew/3-12.htm">Matthew 3:12</a></span><br />Whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor and gather his wheat into the barn; but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../mark/9-43.htm">Mark 9:43</a></span><br />And if thy hand scandalize thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life, maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into unquenchable fire:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/4-4.htm">Isaiah 4:4</a></span><br />If the Lord shall wash away the filth of the daughters of Sion, and shall wash away the blood of Jerusalem out of the midst thereof, by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/5-24.htm">Isaiah 5:24</a></span><br />Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and the heat of the flame consumeth it: so shall their root be as ashes, and their bud shall go up as dust: for they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and have blasphemed the word of the Holy One of Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/9-19.htm">Isaiah 9:19</a></span><br />By the wrath of the Lord of hosts the land is troubled, and the people shall be as fuel for the fire: no man shall spare his brother.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/24-6.htm">Isaiah 24:6</a></span><br />Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, and the inhabitants thereof shall sin: and therefore they that dwell therein shall be mad, and few men shall be left.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/26-11.htm">Isaiah 26:11</a></span><br />Lord, let thy hand be exalted, and let them not see: let the envious people see, and be confounded: and let fire devour thy enemies.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/33-11.htm">Isaiah 33:11</a></span><br />You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/34-10.htm">Isaiah 34:10</a></span><br />Night and day it shall not be quenched, the smoke thereof shall go up for ever: from generation to generation it shall lie waste, none shall pass through it for ever and ever.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/43-17.htm">Isaiah 43:17</a></span><br />Who brought forth the chariot and the horse, the army and the strong: they lay down to sleep together, and they shall not rise again: they are broken as flax, and are extinct.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/66-17.htm">Isaiah 66:17</a></span><br />They that were sanctified, thought themselves clean in the gardens behind the gate within, they that did eat swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse: they shall be consumed together, saith the Lord.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../isaiah/66-24.htm">Isaiah 66:24</a></span><br />And they shall go out, and see the carcasses of the men that have transgressed against me: their worm shall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched: and they shall be a loathsome sight to all flesh.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/21-12.htm">Jeremiah 21:12</a></span><br />O house of David, thus saith the Lord: Judge ye judgment in the morning, and deliver him that is oppressed by violence out of the hand of the oppressor: lest my indignation go forth like a fire, and be kindled, and there be none to quench it, because of the evil of your ways.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><div class="vheading2">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/psalms/102-3.htm">Burn</a> <a href="/isaiah/1-11.htm">Burned</a> 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