Isaiah 33:11
Ye shall be pregnant with hay, [and] ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire, which shall devour you.
Leeser Tanakh
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 raise myself; now will I lift myself up.
12And the people shall be burnt as lime: as cut-off thorns shall they blaze up in fire.
Cross References
Job 15:35They conceive trouble, and bring forth wrong-doing, and their body prepareth deceit.
Psalms 7:14(7:15) Behold, he travaileth with wrong doing; but he hath conceived mischief, and bringeth forth falsehood.
Psalms 83:5(83:6) For they have consulted cordially together; against thee they make a covenant:
Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the tongue of the fire devoureth the stubble, and dry hay sinketh before the flame: so shall their root be as rotten things, and their blossom shall fly up as the dust; because they have despised the law of the Lord of hosts, and the word of the Holy One of Israel they have rejected.
Isaiah 9:17(9:16) Therefore will the Lord have no joy in their young men, and on their fatherless and widows will he have no mercy; for every one is a hypocrite and an evil-doer, and every mouth speaketh scandalous words. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand still remaineth stretched out.
Isaiah 17:13The nations will make a noise like the roaring of many waters; but He will rebuke it, and it shall flee afar off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and as thistle-down before the tempest.
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 →