Isaiah 47:14

Hinei, they shall be as kash (stubble, straw); 1 the eish shall burn them; 1 they shall not save their nefesh 1 from the power of the flame; 1 there shall not be a hot coal to warm them, 1 nor eish to sit before. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

In Context

13Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy etzot (counsels). 1 Let now stand up the hovrev Shomayim (the dissectors of the heavens, astrologers), 1 the chozim bakochavim (stargazers), 1 the ones that predict the future by Rosh Chodesh, 1 and save thee from these things 1 that shall come upon thee. 1

15Thus unto thee are they with whom thou hast toiled, 1 who have been thy socharim (traffickers, i.e., religious practitioners) from thy neurim (youth); 1 they shall wander about in their random exits; 1 none shall act as Moshi'a to thee.

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Cross References

Exodus 5:12So HaAm were scattered abroad throughout kol Eretz Mitzrayim to gather stubble instead of straw.

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 30:14And whose collapse is as the breaking of the clay jar of yotzerim (pottery makers) 1 that is broken in pieces; it shall not be spared; 1 so that there shall not be found among its fragments a shard 1 to take eish from the fire, 1 or to take mayim therewith out of the cistern. 1

Isaiah 41:2Who awakened the just one + 41:2 Koresh, Cyrus 44:28 from the mizrach (east), 1 called him to His raglayim, 1 gave the Goyim before him, 1 and made him rule over melachim? 1 He gave them as the aphar to his + 41:2 the conquerorʼs cherev, 1 and as windblown kash (chaff, stubble) to his + 41:2 the conquerorʼs keshet (bow). 1

Jeremiah 51:30The Gibborim of Bavel have ceased to fight, 1 they have remained in their metzadot (strongholds); 1 their gevurah (might) hath failed; 1 they became as nashim; 1 they have burned her mishkenot (dwelling places); 1 her gate bars are broken. 1

Jeremiah 51:58Thus saith Hashem Tzva'os: 1 The thick chomot Bavel shall be utterly broken, 1 and her high she'arim shall be burned with eish; 1 and the people shall labor in vain, 1 and the peoples wear themselves out 1 only for eish.

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 47:8-15

Babylon Threatened. ( b. c. 708.) 7 And thou saidst, I shall be a lady for ever: so that thou didst not lay these things to thy heart, neither didst remember the latter end of it. 8 Therefore hear now this, thou that art given to pleasures, that dwellest carelessly, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I know the loss of children: 9 But these two things shall come to thee in a moment in one day, the loss of children, and widowhood: they shall come… Read the whole commentary →

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