Isaiah 47:14

See, they will become like stubble. The fire will burn them up. 1 They will not save themselves from the hand of the flame. 1 There are no coals to warm them and no fire for them to sit by! 1

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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

13You are tired out with your many consultations; let those men stand up 1 and save you—those who chart the heavens and look at the stars, 1 those who declare the new moons—let them save you from what will happen to you. 1

15This is what they have become to you— 1 those with whom you have worked, 1 and you have bought and sold with them since your youth— 1 they wandered about each one in his own direction; 2 there is no one who can rescue you.”

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Cross References

Exodus 5:12So the people scattered throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw.

Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the tongue of fire devours stubble, and as the dry grass goes down in flame, 1 so their root will rot, and their blossom will blow away like dust. 1 This will happen because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of hosts, and because they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. 1

Isaiah 30:14He will break it as a potter's vessel is broken; he will not spare it, 1 so that there will not be found among its pieces a shard 1 with which to scrape fire from the hearth, or to scoop up water out of the cistern. 1

Isaiah 41:2Who has stirred up one from the east, calling him in righteousness to his service? 1 He hands nations over to him and helps him subdue kings. 1 He turns them to dust with his sword, like windblown stubble with his bow. 1

Jeremiah 51:30The soldiers in Babylon have stopped fighting; they stay in their strongholds. 1 Their strength has failed; they have become women—her homes are on fire, the bars of her gates are broken. 1

Jeremiah 51:58Yahweh of hosts says this: The thick walls of Babylon will be completely demolished, 1 and her high gates will be burned. 1 Then the peoples coming to her aid will labor uselessly; everything that the nations try to do for her will be burned up.” 1

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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