English Standard Version
Isaiah 33:11
11You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.
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.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You shall conceive chaff, You shall bring forth stubble; Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
- New Living Translation (NLT)You Assyrians produce nothing but dry grass and stubble. Your own breath will turn to fire and consume you.
Context of Isaiah 33:11
9The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is confounded and withers away; Sharon is like a desert, and Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. 10"Now I will arise," says the Lord, "now I will lift myself up; now I will be exalted. You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you. 12And the peoples will be as if burned to lime, like thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire." 13Hear, you who are far off, what I have done; and you who are near, acknowledge my might.
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תַּהֲר֥וּ חֲשַׁ֖שׁ תֵּ֣לְדוּ קַ֑שׁ רוּחֲכֶ֕ם אֵ֖שׁ תֹּאכַלְכֶֽם׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Isaiah 33:11
- Isaiah 8:9Be broken, you peoples, and be shattered; give ear, all you far countries; strap on your armor and be shattered; strap on your armor and be shattered.
- Isaiah 10:7But he does not so intend, and his heart does not so think; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off nations not a few;
- Isaiah 17:13The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
- Isaiah 29:5But the multitude of your foreign foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the ruthless like passing chaff. And in an instant, suddenly,
- Isaiah 59:4No one enters suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
- Job 15:35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil, and their womb prepares deceit."
- Psalms 2:1Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?
- Psalms 7:14Behold, the wicked man conceives evil and is pregnant with mischief and gives birth to lies.
- Psalms 83:5For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant—
- Acts 5:4While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, was it not at your disposal? Why is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You have not lied to man but to God."
- James 1:15Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
- Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will be as rottenness, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 30:30And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones.
- Isaiah 31:8"And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.
- Isaiah 37:23"'Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes to the heights? Against the Holy One of Israel!
- Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it.
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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