Isaiah 33:11

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible

Contextual Overview

¹Woe to you, O destroyer never destroyed, O traitor never betrayed! When you have finished destroying, you will be destroyed. When you have finished betraying, you will be betrayed. ²O LORD, be gracious to us! We wait for You. Be our strength every morning and our salvation in time of trouble. ³The peoples flee the thunder of Your voice; the nations scatter when You rise. ⁴Your spoil will be gathered as if by locusts; like a swarm of locusts men will pounce on it. ⁵The LORD is exalted, for He dwells on high; He has filled Zion with justice and righteousness. ⁶There will be times of security for you-a storehouse of salvation, wisdom, and knowledge. The fear of the LORD is Zion's treasure. ⁷Behold! Their warriors cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly. ⁸The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded. ⁹The land mourns and languishes; Lebanon is ashamed and decayed. Sharon is like a desert; Bashan and Carmel shake off their leaves. ¹⁰"Now I will arise," says the LORD. "Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.

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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
Thus Jacob became exceedingly prosperous. He owned large flocks, maidservants and menservants, and camels and donkeys.

Genesis 33:5
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, "Who are these with you?" Jacob answered, "These are the children God has graciously given your servant."

Genesis 33:6
Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.

Genesis 33:9
"I already have plenty, my brother," Esau replied. "Keep what belongs to you."

Genesis 33:11
Please take my present that was brought to you, because God has been gracious to me and I have all I need. So Jacob pressed him until he accepted.

Genesis 33:12
Then Esau said, "Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you."

Genesis 33:13
But Jacob replied, "My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.

Genesis 33:15
"Let me leave some of my people with you," Esau said. But Jacob replied, "Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."

Genesis 33:16
So that day Esau started on his way back to Seir,

Genesis 33:20
There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-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."