Isaiah 33:11
Now shall ye see, now shall ye perceive; the strength of your breath shall be vain; fire shall devour you.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 glorified; now will I be exalted.
12And the nations shall be burned up; as a thorn in the field cast out and burned up.
Cross References
Job 15:35And he shall conceive sorrows, 1 And his end shall be vanity, 1 And his belly shall bear deceit.
Psalms 7:14And on it he has fitted the instruments of death; 1 He has completed his arrows for the raging ones. 1
Psalms 83:5Blessed are they that dwell in thy house: 1 They will praise thee evermore. Pause. 1
Isaiah 5:24Therefore as stubble shall be burned by a coal of fire, and shall be consumed by a violent flame, their root shall be as chaff, and their flower shall go up as dust: for they rejected the law of the Lord of hosts, and insulted the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 9:17And iniquity shall burn as fire, and shall be devoured by fire as dry grass: and it shall burn in the thickets of the wood, and shall devour all that is round about the hills.
Isaiah 17:13many nations like much water, as when much water rushes violently: and they shall drive him away, and pursue him afar, as the dust of chaff when men winnow before the wind, and as a storm whirling the dust of the wheel.
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 →