Isaiah 33:11
Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! — fire devoureth you.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
In Context
10Now, do I arise, saith Jehovah, Now I am exalted, now I am lifted up.
12And peoples have been [as] burnings of lime, Thorns, as sweepings, with fire they burn.
Cross References
Job 15:35To conceive misery, and to bear iniquity, Even their heart doth prepare deceit.
Psalms 7:14Lo, he travaileth [with] iniquity, And he hath conceived perverseness, And hath brought forth falsehood.
Psalms 83:5For they consulted in heart together, Against Thee a covenant they make,
Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire devoureth stubble, And flaming hay falleth, Their root is as muck, And their flower as dust goeth up. Because they have rejected the law of Jehovah of Hosts, And the saying of the Holy One of Israel despised.
Isaiah 9:17Therefore, over its young men the Lord rejoiceth not, And its orphans, and its widows He pitieth not, For every one [is] profane, and an evil doer, And every mouth is speaking folly. With all this not turned back hath His anger, And still His hand is stretched out.
Isaiah 17:13Nations as the wasting of many waters are wasted, And He hath pushed against it, And it hath fled afar off, And been pursued as chaff of hills before wind, And as a rolling thing before a hurricane.
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 →