Bible verse

Isaiah 33:11

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

Isaiah 33:11 · BSB

Isaiah 33:11 in context

The verses around it, from Isaiah 33.

7 Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

8 The highways are deserted; travel has ceased. The treaty has been broken, the witnesses are despised, and human life is disregarded.

9 The 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.

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

12 The peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.

13 You who are far off, hear what I have done; you who are near, acknowledge My might.”

14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”

15 He who walks righteously and speaks with sincerity, who refuses gain from extortion, whose hand never takes a bribe, who stops his ears against murderous plots and shuts his eyes tightly against evil—

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Isaiah 33:11 in other translations

KJV

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you.

ASV

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

ERV

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

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