Isaiah 33:11
Ye shall conceive chaff Ye shall bring forth stubble,—Your own breath, like fire, shall devour you.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 Yahweh, Now, will I lift myself up, Now, will I be exalted!
Cross References
Job 15:35Conceiving mischief, and bringing forth iniquity, yea, their inmost soul, prepareth deceit.
Psalms 7:14Lo! he gendereth trouble, and conceiveth mischief, but giveth birth to a disappointment:
Psalms 83:5For they have taken counsel with one heart, Against thee—a covenant, would they solemnize—
Isaiah 5:24Therefore, As a tongue of fire, eateth up straw, And a flame reduceth, dry grass, to powder, Their root, like rottenness, shall become, And their blossom, like dust shall ascend,—Because they refused the law of Yahweh of hosts, And the utterance of the Holy One of Israel, they despised.
Isaiah 9:17For this cause, over their choice young men, will My Lord not rejoice, And on their fatherless and their widows, will he not have compassion, For every one of them, is profane and an evildoer, And, every mouth is speaking baseness,—For all this, hath his anger, not turned back, But still, is his hand outstretched.
Isaiah 17:13Though nations like the rushing of many waters, shall rush, Yet shall one rebuke him, And he shall flee far away,—And be chased As the chaff of the mountains before a wind, And as whirling stubble before a storm!
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 →