Tree of Life Version
Isaiah 33:11
11You conceive chaff, you will give birth to stubble. My 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.
- 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 mourns and languishes; Lebanon is shamed and withers; Sharon is like a wilderness; Bashan and Carmel are shaken bare. 10“Now I will arise,” says Adonai. “Now I will be exalted. Now I will lift Myself up. You conceive chaff, you will give birth to stubble. My breath is a fire that will consume you. 12Then peoples will be burned as lime, like thorns cut down, burned in the fire. 13Hear, you who are afar 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
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Isaiah 33:11
- Isaiah 8:9Make an uproar, O peoples— but you will be broken in pieces. Give ear, all you of far countries. Arm yourselves—yet be shattered! Arm yourselves—yet be shattered!
- Isaiah 10:7Yet that is not what Assyria intends, nor is that what he is thinking about. Rather his heart is to destroy, and to cut down nations—only a few!
- Isaiah 17:13The nations will rush in like the rumbling of many waters, but He will rebuke them so they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the hills before the wind, like whirling dust before the storm.
- Isaiah 29:5Yet the multitude of your foes will become like fine dust, and the multitude of the terrifying like chaff that passes away. It will happen in an instant, suddenly.
- Isaiah 59:4No one sues justly, and none pleads a case honestly. They trust in confusion and speak lies. They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
- Job 15:35They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their belly prepares deception.”
- Psalms 2:1Why are the nations in an uproar, and the peoples mutter vanity?
- Psalms 7:14He prepares His own deadly weapons. He makes His fiery arrows.
- Psalms 83:5“Come,” they say, “let’s wipe them out as a nation! Let Israel’s name be remembered no more!”
- Acts 5:4While it remained unsold, it was your own, wasn’t it? And after it was sold, wasn’t it at your disposal? How did this deed get into your heart? You haven’t lied to men but to God.”
- James 1:15Then when desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is full grown, it brings forth death.
- Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw, and as chaff collapses into the flame, so their root will be like rot, and their blossom will go up like dust. For they have rejected the Torah of Adonai–Tzva’ot, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 30:30Adonai will make His glorious voice heard, and reveal His arm descending with fierce fury in a consuming fire, in cloudburst, rainstorm and hailstones.
- Isaiah 31:8“Then Assyria will fall, not by a sword of man, so a sword not of man will devour him and he will flee from the sword. His young men will be put to forced labor.
- Isaiah 37:23Whom did you taunt and blaspheme? Against whom did you raise your voice and haughtily lift up your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!
- Nahum 1:5Mountains quaked because of Him, and the hills have melted. The earth has heaved up at His presence—yes, the world and everything dwelling 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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