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Another verse from Isaiah 13:
12 I will make a man more precious than fine gold
and one from Isaiah 47:
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it...
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God promises to destroy the world with fire.
Fire accomplishes many things in the process as well as being destructive, as seen in Isaiah 13, 47 and Australia.
Quoting: Anonymous Coward 78341978 Isaiah 47 brings to mind the parable of the wheat and tares.
The righteous are saved - while the sinners will be burned as stubble is.
A short explanation of this parable can be found in Wikipedia:
The Parable of the Tares (also known as the Parable of the Weeds, Parable of the Wheat and Tares, ...is a parable of Jesus which appears in Matthew 13:24-13:30, following the Parable of the Sower, and preceding the Parable of the Mustard Seed. The parable relates how servants eager to pull up the tares were warned that in so doing they would root out the wheat as well and were told to let both grow together until the harvest. According to the interpretation supplied in Matthew 13:36-13:43, the parable's meaning is that the "sons of the evil one" (the tares or weeds) will be separated from the "sons of the kingdom" (the wheat) at "the end of the age" (the harvest) by angels. This is usually taken to refer to the separation of the unsaved sinners from the saved believers during the Last Judgment.
...while ye gather up the tares, ye root up also the wheat with them.
Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
