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Isaiah 33:11
11My enemies, everything that you want to do will be useless. Your thoughts are like dry grass and straw. Your own breath will destroy you, like a fire that burns dry grass.
Isaiah 33:11 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
- New International Version (NIV)You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes you.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall conceive chaff, You shall bring forth stubble; Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
Context of Isaiah 33:11
9The land itself is dry and useless. Lebanon's forest is dying. Sharon has become like a desert. The trees in Bashan and Carmel have no leaves. 10The Lord says, ‘Now I will stand up to do something. I will show that I am great and powerful. My enemies, everything that you want to do will be useless. Your thoughts are like dry grass and straw. Your own breath will destroy you, like a fire that burns dry grass. 12Your people will be like wood for the fire, and only ashes will remain. They will burn as easily as thorn bushes that people cut down and throw on the fire. 13You people who live far away, listen to what I have done! You people who are near, understand that I am very strong.’
Read all of Isaiah 33Isaiah 33:11 word by word
תַּהֲר֥וּ חֲשַׁ֖שׁ תֵּ֣לְדוּ קַ֑שׁ רוּחֲכֶ֕ם אֵ֖שׁ תֹּאכַלְכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 33:11
- Isaiah 8:9You foreign nations must listen to this! Join together to fight. Shout as you go to battle. But you will never win! You people from countries that are far away, get ready for war. But you will be completely destroyed!
- Isaiah 10:7But Assyria's ruler has other ideas. He does not understand that he is my weapon. He wants his army to destroy many nations, so that they have no power.
- Isaiah 17:13But it does not matter how much noise they make. Those people may roar like powerful waves, but the Lord will shout at them to stop. Then they will run far away! They will run like the wind as it blows chaff across the hills. It will be like a strong storm that carries away dead weeds!
- Isaiah 29:5Your enemies will be like an army of dust. The wind will blow away that crowd of cruel men as if they are chaff. That will all happen very suddenly!
- Isaiah 59:4When people accuse somebody in court, the truth is not important. They tell lies and they deceive the judge, so that they will win. They decide how they can cause trouble, and then they do wicked things.
- Job 15:35They make plans to cause trouble, so that evil things happen. Lies are what come out from inside them.’
- Psalms 2:1Why are nations making plans to turn against the Lord? All their plans will fail!
- Psalms 7:14Look! Wicked people prepare to do evil things! They want to cause trouble. Like a pregnant woman, what starts inside them comes out into the open! They give birth to lies that deceive people.
- Psalms 83:5They agree together what they will do. They join one another to fight against you.
- Acts 5:4Before you sold the field, it belonged to you. And after you sold the field, the money was yours. You could choose what to do with it. But you chose to do a very bad thing. You did not only tell a lie to us men. You have told a lie to God.’
- James 1:15We may agree to do what our bad thoughts tell us to do. When we do that, it becomes a sin. Then, we may not stop doing those bad things. If we continue to live like that, the result of our sins is death.
- Isaiah 5:24Because of that, they will come to a bad end. It will be for them like a hot fire that destroys dry grass. Their roots will die and their flowers will blow away like dust. They have refused to obey the laws of the Lord Almighty. They have not listened to the message that the holy God of Israel has taught them.
- Isaiah 30:30Then the Lord will shout with royal authority. People will know that he has come with great power to punish his enemies. His anger will be like a fire that burns everything. He will come with a great storm of rain, thunder and hail that destroys everything.
- Isaiah 31:8The Assyrian soldiers will die in battle. But humans did not make the sword that will kill them. It is God's sword that will destroy them. The Assyrians will run away from that sword. But their strong young men will have to do hard work as slaves.
- Isaiah 37:23Who do you think it is that you have insulted? Who have you shouted at? Who have you looked at so proudly? The answer is the Holy God of Israel!
- Nahum 1:5He causes the mountains to shake and he causes the hills to become flat. The earth and all the people in the world are afraid of God.
Commentaries on Isaiah 33:11
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 11Your breath "And my spirit" - "For רוחכם ruchechem, your spirit, read כמו רוחי ruchi kemo . "Secker. Which reading is confirmed by the Chaldee, where מימרי meymri, "my word, "answers to רוחי ruchi, "my spirit."Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 11Ye shall conceive chaff - An address of God to the Assyrians. The figure is one that denotes that their counsels would be in vain. Chaff and stubble are used in the Scriptures, in contrast with grain, to denote anything which is not solid, nutritious, or substantial; then anything which is frivolous, useless, vain. A similar image occurs in Isaiah 26:18 (see the note on that place; compare Isaiah 59:4). Your breath as fire shall devour you - The word…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 11In most passages, the Assyrians reduced other nations to worthless dry grass and stubble (see Isaiah 17:13; 29:5; 40:24; 41:2). Here, ironically, they experience the same fate.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1111. Ye--the enemy. conceive chaff--(Is 26:18; 59:4). your breath--rather, your own spirit of anger and ambition [Maurer], (Is 30:28).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Isaiah 33
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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