Isaiah 33:11
Ye conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
In Context
10Now will I arise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift Myself up.
12And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime; as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.
Cross References
Job 15:35They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, and their belly prepareth deceit.
Psalms 7:14(7-15) Behold, he travaileth with iniquity; yea, he conceiveth mischief, and bringeth forth falsehood.
Psalms 83:5(83-6) For they have consulted together with one consent; against Thee do they make a covenant;
Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and as the chaff is consumed in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of the LORD of hosts, and contemned the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 9:17(9-16) Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall He have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for every one is ungodly and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh wantonness. For all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters; but He shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like the whirling dust before the 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 →