Isaiah 33:11
You conceive chaff, you bear stubble; Your spirit—a fire [that] devours you.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
In Context
10Now I arise, says YHWH, || Now I am exalted, now I am lifted up.
12And peoples have been [as] burnings of lime, || Thorns, as sweepings, they burn with fire.
Cross References
Job 15:35To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, || Even their heart prepares deceit.”
Psalms 7:14Behold, he travails [with] iniquity, || And he has conceived perverseness, || And has brought forth falsehood.
Psalms 83:5For they consulted in heart together, || They make a covenant against You,
Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble, || And flaming hay falls, || Their root is as muck, || And their flower goes up as dust. Because they have rejected the Law of YHWH of Hosts, || And despised the saying of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 9:17Therefore, the Lord does not rejoice over its young men, || And He does not pity its orphans and its widows, || For everyone [is] profane, and an evildoer, || And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this His anger has not turned back, || And His hand is still stretched out.
Isaiah 17:13Nations crash as the roaring of many waters, || And He rebuked them, || And they fled far off, || And were pursued as chaff of hills before wind, || And as a rolling thing before a windstorm.
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 →