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Isaiah 33:11

Isaiah 33:11
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble,.... Signifying that all the counsels, designs, and schemes, of the antichristian party, to continue themselves in their present state, and save…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Ye shall conceive chaff - An address of God to the Assyrians. The figure is one that denotes that their counsels would be in vain. Chaff and stubble are used in the Scriptures, in contrast with grain,…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Isaiah 33:1-12

Here we have,

I. The proud and false Assyrian justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence, and laid under a woe, Isa 33:1. Observe, 1. The sin which the enemy had been guilty of. He had…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Still the words of Jehovah, addressed to the enemy. The present tense would be better than the future. For the first figure see ch. Isa 59:4; Job 15:35; Psa 7:14.

your breath Better as R.V. your…