Isaiah 33:11
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
Isaiah 33:11 in other translations
| BSB | You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you. |
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| WEB | You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you. |
| ASV | Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you. |
| YLT | Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! --fire devoureth you. |
| DARBY | Ye shall conceive dry grass, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath shall devour you as fire. |
| BBE | Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath. |
| Webster | Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you. |
What does Isaiah 33:11 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 33:1-14
God's judgments against the enemies of his church. (Is. 33:1-14) The happiness of his people. (Is. 33:15-24) Verses 1-14 Here we have the proud and false destroyer justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence. The righteous God often pays sinners in their own coin. Those who by faith humbly wait for God, shall find him gracious to them; as the day, so let the strength be. If God leaves us to ourselves any…
Isaiah 33:11 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Isaiah 33:11
- Isaiah 59:4
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
- Psalms 7:14
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
- James 1:15
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
- Acts 5:4
Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
- Isaiah 10:7-14
Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few. For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings? Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus? As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; …
- Psalms 2:1
Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?
- Isaiah 30:30-33
And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones. For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod. And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it. For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.
- Isaiah 8:9-10
Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.
- Nahum 1:5-10
The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein. Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him. The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him. But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies. …
- Isaiah 26:18
We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
- Isaiah 1:31
And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench them.
- Isaiah 17:13
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
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Context
- Isaiah 33:10
Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
- Isaiah 33:11
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
- Isaiah 33:12
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
Isaiah 33:11 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Concebisteis hojarascas, aristas pariréis: el soplo de vuestro fuego os consumirá. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Vous concevrez l’herbe sèche, vous enfanterez le chaume: votre colère est un feu qui vous consumera. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ihr gehet schwanger mit Heu, Stoppeln werdet ihr gebären; euer Schnauben ist ein Feuer, das euch verzehren wird. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Concipietis ardorem, parietis stipulam; spiritus vester ut ignis vorabit vos. |