Isaiah 33:11

Bible in Basic English

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

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
You will conceive chaff;you will give birth to stubble.Your breath is fire that will consume you.

Hebrew Names Version
You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

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

English Standard Version
You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.

New American Standard Bible
"You have conceived chaff, you will give birth to stubble; My breath will consume you like a fire.

New Century Version
You people do useless things that are like hay and straw. A destructive wind will burn you like fire.

Amplified Bible
"You have conceived dried grass, you will give birth to stubble; My breath is a fire that will consume you.

World English Bible
You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

Geneva Bible (1587)
Ye shall conceiue chaffe, and bring forth stubble: the fire of your breath shall deuoure you.

Legacy Standard Bible
You have conceived chaff, you will give birth to stubble;My breath will consume you like a fire.

Berean Standard Bible
You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.

Contemporary English Version
Your deeds are straw that will be set on fire by your very own breath.

Complete Jewish Bible
You conceive chaff and give birth to stubble, your breath is a fire devouring you.

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

Easy-to-Read Version
You people have done useless things. These things are like hay and straw. They are worth nothing! Your breath will be like a fire and burn you.

George Lamsa Translation
You shall conceive thorns, you shall bring forth stubble; your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

Good News Translation
You make worthless plans and everything you do is useless. My spirit is like a fire that will destroy you.

Lexham English Bible
You conceive dry grass, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire; it will consume you.

Literal Translation
You shall conceive chaff; you shall bear stubble; your fiery breath shall devour you.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Ye shal conceaue stubble, and beare strawe, & youre sprete shalbe the fyre, that it maye consume you:

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

JPS Old Testament (1917)
Ye conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

King James Version (1611)
Yee shall conceiue chaffe, yee shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall deuoure you.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Ye shall conceaue stubble, and beare strawe: and your spirite shalbe the fire, that it may consume you.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Now shall ye see, now shall ye perceive; the strength of your breath, shall be vain; fire shall devour you.

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

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Ye schulen conseyue heete, ye schulen brynge forth stobil; youre spirit as fier schal deuoure you.

Update Bible Version
You shall be pregnant with chaff, you shall give birth to stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

Webster's Bible Translation
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.

New English Translation
You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

New King James Version
You shall conceive chaff, You shall bring forth stubble; Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

New Living Translation
You Assyrians produce nothing but dry grass and stubble. Your own breath will turn to fire and consume you.

New Life Bible
You bring life to what is of no worth. You give birth to what is of no use. My breath will destroy you like a fire.

New Revised Standard
You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Ye shall conceive chaff Ye shall bring forth stubble, - Your own breath, like fire, shall devour you.

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

Revised Standard Version
You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.

Young's Literal Translation
Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! -- fire devoureth you.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"You have conceived chaff, you will give birth to stubble; My breath will consume you like a fire.

Contextual Overview

¹ Ho! you who make waste those who did not make you waste; acting falsely to those who were not false to you. When you have come to an end of wasting, you will be made waste, and after your false acts, they will do the same to you. ² O Lord, have mercy on us; for we have been waiting for your help: be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of trouble. ³ At the loud noise the peoples have gone in flight; at your coming up the nations have gone in all directions. ⁴ And the goods taken in war will be got together like the massing of young locusts; men will be rushing on them like the rushing of locusts. ⁵ The Lord is lifted up; his place is on high: he has made Zion full of righteousness and true religion. ⁶ And she will have no more fear of change, being full of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge: the fear of the Lord is her wealth. ⁷ See, the men of war are sorrowing outside the town: those who came looking for peace are weeping bitterly. ⁸ The highways are waste, no man is journeying there: the agreement is broken, he has made sport of the towns, he has no thought for man. ⁹ The earth is sorrowing and wasting away; Lebanon is put to shame and has become waste; Sharon is like the Arabah; and in Bashan and Carmel the leaves are falling. ¹⁰ Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

conceive: Isaiah 8:9, Isaiah 8:10, Isaiah 10:7-14, Isaiah 17:13, Isaiah 29:5-8, Isaiah 59:4, Job 15:35, Psalms 2:1, Psalms 7:14, Psalms 83:5-18, Acts 5:4, James 1:15

your: Isaiah 5:24, Isaiah 30:30-33, Isaiah 31:8, Isaiah 31:9, Isaiah 37:23-29, Nahum 1:5-10

Reciprocal: Psalms 83:14 - As the fire Isaiah 29:6 - General Habakkuk 2:10 - sinned

Cross-References

Genesis 30:43
So Jacob's wealth was greatly increased; he had great flocks and women-servants and men-servants and camels and asses.

Genesis 33:5
Then Esau, lifting up his eyes, saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with you? And he said, The children whom God in his mercy has given to your servant.

Genesis 33:6
Then the servants and their children came near, and went down on their faces.

Genesis 33:9
But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.

Genesis 33:11
Take my offering then, with my blessing; for God has been very good to me and I have enough: so at his strong request, he took it.

Genesis 33:12
And he said, Let us go on our journey together, and I will go in front.

Genesis 33:13
But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

Genesis 33:15
And Esau said, Then keep some of my men with you. And he said, What need is there for that, if my lord is pleased with me?

Genesis 33:16
So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.

Genesis 33:20
And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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 themselves from ruin, as well as utterly to destroy the interest of Christ, would be weak, vain, and fruitless; their conceptions and actions, their purposes and attempts, would be alike; would be abortive, like chaff and stubble, and only serve as such for their own destruction:

your breath [as] fire shall devour you; or, "your spirit" a; your pride and haughtiness, in self praises, commendations, and glorying; your rage, wrath, and fury, against the saints; your blasphemy against God and Christ shall be the reason why the fire of God's wrath shall consume you. The Targum is,

"you have thought for yourselves, O ye people, thoughts of wickedness; ye have done for yourselves evil works; because of your evil works, my Word shall destroy you, as a whirlwind the stubble;''

Christ, the essential Word of God.

a רוחכם "spiritus vester", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, &c.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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, to denote anything which is not solid, nutritious, or substantial; then anything which is frivolous, useless, vain. A similar image occurs in Isaiah 26:18 (see the note on that place; compare Isaiah 59:4).

Your breath as fire shall devour you - The word ‘breath’ here (רוח rûach, spirit) is evidently used in the sense of the Θυμός thumos, and denotes anger, as in Isaiah 30:28. It refers to the haughty and arrogant spirit of Sennacherib; the enraged and excited mind intent on victory and plunder. The sense is, that his mind, so intent on conquest - so proud, excited, and angry, would be the means of his own destruction. Lowth proposes to read ‘my spirit,’ but for this change there is no authority from manuscripts (see the notes at Isaiah 1:31).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 33:11. Your breath - "And my spirit"] "For רוחכם ruchechem, your spirit, read רוחי כמו ruchi kemo." Secker. Which reading is confirmed by the Chaldee, where מימרי meywri, "my word," answers to רוחי ruchi, "my spirit."