Isaiah 33:11
All you give birth to is only dry grass, all you deliver is just stubble. Your breath is a fire that will burn you up.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
In Context
12You people will be burned to ashes like thorns that are cut down and thrown into the fire.
Cross References
Job 15:35They plan trouble and produce evil, giving birth to deception.”
Psalms 7:14See how the wicked conceive evil! They are pregnant with trouble. They give birth to dishonesty.
Psalms 83:5They all agree in their conspiracy; they've made a treaty together to attack you—
Isaiah 5:24In the same way fire burns up stubble and dry grass falls down in the flames, so their roots will decay and their flowers disintegrate into dust. For they have rejected the law of the Lord Almighty, and have treated with contempt what the Holy One of Israel has said.
Isaiah 9:17As a result the Lord isn't pleased with their young men, he has no compassion for their orphans and widows, because all of them are hypocrites and do what's evil—they all talk stupidly. In all of this he is still angry and his hand is still raised.
Isaiah 17:13The nations roar like the roaring of crashing waves. But he confronts them, and they run far away, blown by the wind like chaff on the mountains, like tumbleweeds driven by a storm.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 33:2-13
Assyria Threatened. ( b. c. 710.) 1 Woe to thee that spoilest, and thou wast not spoiled; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee. 2 O Lord , be gracious unto us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble. 3 At the noise of the tumult the people fled; at the lifting up of thyself… Read the whole commentary →