Isaiah 33:11

What does Isaiah 33:11 mean?

A plain-English look at Isaiah 33:11 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! --fire devoureth you.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Ye shall conceive dry grass, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath shall devour you [as] fire.

Context

v.10Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now will I lift up myself; now will I be exalted.

v.11This passage

v.12And the peoples shall be as the burnings of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 2:1

    Why do the nations rage, And the peoples meditate a vain thing?

  • Isaiah 30:30

    And Jehovah will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.

  • Nahum 1:5

    The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt; and the earth is upheaved at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

  • Isaiah 29:5

    But the multitude of thy foes shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be in an instant suddenly.

  • Isaiah 31:8

    And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to taskwork.

  • Job 15:35

    They conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity, And their heart prepareth deceit.

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