KJV King James Version
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.
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Isaiah 33:11
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
WEB World English Bible
You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
ASV American Standard Version
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit!—fire devoureth you.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 33
8 The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.
9 The earth mourneth [and] languisheth: Lebanon is ashamed [and] hewn down: Sharon is like a wilderness; and Bashan and Carmel shake off [their fruits].
10 Now will I rise, saith the LORD; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.
11 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.
12 And the people shall be [as] the burnings of lime: [as] thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
13 Hear, ye [that are] far off, what I have done; and, ye [that are] near, acknowledge my might.
14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
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Isaiah 59:4None calleth for justice, nor [any] pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.Psalm 7:14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.James 1:15Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.Acts 5:4Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.Isaiah 37:23-29Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted [thy] voice, and lifted up thine eyes on high? [even] against the Holy One of Israel.Isaiah 29:5-8Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones [shall be] as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.Isaiah 26:18We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.Isaiah 5:24Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, [so] their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the LORD of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Job 15:35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.Isaiah 10:7-14Howbeit he meaneth not so, neither doth his heart think so; but [it is] in his heart to destroy and cut off nations not a few.Isaiah 1:31And the strong shall be as tow, and the maker of it as a spark, and they shall both burn together, and none shall quench [them].Nahum 1:5-10The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.Psalm 2:1Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?Isaiah 8:9-10Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear, all ye of far countries: gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces.Isaiah 31:8-9Then shall the Assyrian fall with the sword, not of a mighty man; and the sword, not of a mean man, shall devour him: but he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be discomfited.Isaiah 30:30-33And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and [with] the flame of a devouring fire, [with] scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.Isaiah 17:13The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but [God] shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.Psalm 83:5-18For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:
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