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Isaiah 33:11
11You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes 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.
- 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.
- 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 dries up and wastes away, Lebanon is ashamed and withers; Sharon is like the Arabah, and Bashan and Carmel drop their leaves. 10“Now will I arise,” says the Lord. “Now will I be exalted; now will I be lifted up. You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes you. 12The peoples will be burned to ashes; like cut thornbushes they will be set ablaze.” 13You who are far away, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge my power!
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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 8:9Raise the war cry, you nations, and be shattered! Listen, all you distant lands. Prepare for battle, and be shattered! Prepare for battle, and be shattered!
- Isaiah 10:7But this is not what he intends, this is not what he has in mind; his purpose is to destroy, to put an end to many nations.
- Isaiah 17:13Although the peoples roar like the roar of surging waters, when he rebukes them they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills, like tumbleweed before a gale.
- Isaiah 29:5But your many enemies will become like fine dust, the ruthless hordes like blown chaff. Suddenly, in an instant,
- Isaiah 59:4No one calls for justice; no one pleads a case with integrity. They rely on empty arguments, they utter lies; they conceive trouble and give birth to evil.
- Job 15:35They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb fashions deceit.”
- Psalms 2:1Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?
- Psalms 7:14Whoever is pregnant with evil conceives trouble and gives birth to disillusionment.
- Psalms 83:5With one mind they plot together; they form an alliance against you—
- Acts 5:4Didn’t it belong to you before it was sold? And after it was sold, wasn’t the money at your disposal? What made you think of doing such a thing? You have not lied just to human beings but to God.”
- James 1:15Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.
- Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as tongues of fire lick up straw and as dry grass sinks down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty and spurned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 30:30The Lord will cause people to hear his majestic voice and will make them see his arm coming down with raging anger and consuming fire, with cloudburst, thunderstorm and hail.
- Isaiah 31:8“Assyria will fall by no human sword; a sword, not of mortals, will devour them. They will flee before the sword and their young men will be put to forced labor.
- Isaiah 37:23Who is it you have ridiculed and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!
- Nahum 1:5The mountains quake before him and the hills melt away. The earth trembles at his presence, the world and all who live 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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