Isaiah 33:11

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth straw; 1 your ruach (breath), as eish, shall devour you. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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 Hashem; 1 now will I be exalted; 1 now will I lift up Myself. 1

12And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime; 1 as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the eish. 1

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Cross References

Job 15:35They conceive amal (trouble), and give birth to evil, 1 and their belly worketh mirmar (deceit).

Psalms 7:14He hath also prepared for Him the instruments of mavet; 1 He ordaineth His flaming khitzim (arrows). 1

Psalms 83:5They have said: Come, 1 and let us cut them off from being a goy (nation); 1 that the shem Yisroel may be no more remembered. 1

Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the eish licketh up the stubble, 1 and the flame consumeth the dry grass, 1 so their shoresh shall be as rottenness, 1 and their blossom shall go up as dust; 1 because they have cast away the Torat Hashem Tzva'os, 1 and spurned the word of the Kadosh Yisroel. 1

Isaiah 9:17For wickedness burneth like eish; 1 it shall devour the briers and thorns, 1 and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, 1 and they shall smoke upward like the lifting up of ashan (smoke). 1

Isaiah 17:13The nations shall roar like the roaring of mayim rabbim; 1 but He shall rebuke them, 1 and they shall flee far off, 1 and shall be chased as the motz (chaff) of the harim before the ruach, 1 and like whirling dust before the storm. 1

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 →

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