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