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Isaiah 33:11-12

ISAIAH—NOTE ON Isaiah 33:11 God dooms Assyria’s plan against Judah, repeating the prophecy of v. Isaiah 33:1.

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See also Isaiah 33:11-12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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_, "m...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 33 Sixth Woe Against the Assyrian and What Is to Follow 1. _The judgment announced (Isaiah 33:1)_ 2. _The prayer of the faithful remnant (Isaiah 33:2)_ 3. _The judgment executed (Isaiah 33:7)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISAIAH 33. DENUNCIATION OF THE TREACHEROUS FOE. ZION'S EXTREMITY, YAHWEH'S OPPORTUNITY. If Isaiah's, the date is apparently 701, and the situation presupposed is Sennacherib's demand for unconditional...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BREATH, AS FIRE. breath as. fire. Hebrew. _ruach._...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Jehovah's answer to the complaint and prayer of His people....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Still the words of Jehovah, addressed to the enemy. The present tense would be better than the future. For the first figure see ch. Isaiah 59:4; Job 15:35; Psalms 7:14. _your breath_ Better as R.V. YO...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    NOW WILL I RISE, SAITH THE LORD— We are taught in this period, that when the calamity of the people, as well as the insolence of their enemies, should be full, God would interpose, and severely punish...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    3. SUBJUGATION TEXT: Isaiah 33:1-12 1 Woe to thee that destroyest, and thou wast not destroyed; and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! When thou hast ceased to destr...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you. YE - the enemy. SHALL CONCEIVE CHAFF - (; ). YOUR BREATH - your own spirit of anger and ambition,...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    33:11 breath (g-12) Or 'anger.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    1-12. The deliverance of Jerusalem from the Invader. 13-24. The Consequences of the Interposition of Jehovah for those that dwell in the City....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD DEFENDS *JERUSALEM ISAIAH CHAPTER S 31 TO 39 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 33 A PRAYER FOR HELP V1 *Woe to our enemies! They ruined and cheated other people. Al...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    YE SHALL CONCEIVE CHAFF... — Primarily the words are addressed to the Assyrian invaders, but not without a side glance at all who had been weaving their own webs of policy instead of trusting in Jehov...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    תַּהֲר֥וּ חֲשַׁ֖שׁ תֵּ֣לְדוּ קַ֑שׁ רוּחֲכֶ֕ם אֵ֖שׁ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XXI OUR GOD A CONSUMING FIRE 701 B.C. Isaiah 33:1 WE have seen how the sense of forgiveness and the exultant confidence, which fill chapter 33, were brought about within a few months after...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD EXALTED IN JUDGMENT Isaiah 33:1-12 Here we have the final prediction against Sennacherib. He had dealt very treacherously by returning against Jerusalem, though he had taken a heavy ransom to lea...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This chapter celebrates a great victory, and is prophetic of the method of the final triumph. In the first thirteen verses we have the prophet's appeal, in which there are two movements. In the first...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    (q) Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you. (q) This is spoken against the enemies, who thought all was their own, but he shows that their ent...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _You, Assyrians, are bringing destruction upon yourselves. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    If the Prophet be here speaking of general things, the whole will be suited to all times, in the Church. God's faithfulness is the same: the efficacy of Christ's blood and righteousness, the same: and...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    11.Ye _shall conceive chaff. _He now addresses his discourse to the enemies of the Church, whose insolence, he says, is foolish and to no purpose; for when God shall have brilliantly displayed his pow...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 33 AND 34. Chapter s 33, 34 announce the last two great acts of judgment. At the moment when God establishes Himself in Zion, and fills it with righteousness,...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole 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 t...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, [as] fire, shall devour you. Ver. 11. _Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble._] _Gravidi estis stramiue, parietis s...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Now will I rise_ In this extremity I will appear on the behalf of my people and land. _Ye shall bring forth stubble_ Instead of solid corn. Your great hopes and designs, O ye Assyrians, shall be utte...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Ye shall conceive chaff, dry grass or hay, since the plans which they laid were not fresh and full of life, but utterly dry, without strength and sap, YE SHALL BRING FORTH STUBBLE, to which their futi...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE PUNISHMENT STRIKES THE ADVERSARY...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-14 Here we have the proud and false destroyer justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence. The righteous God often pays sinners in their own coin. Those who by faith humbly wait for God, sh...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    YE SHALL CONCEIVE CHAFF, YE SHALL BRING FORTH STUBBLE, instead of solid corn. Your great hopes and designs, O ye Assyrians! shall be utterly disappointed. YOUR BREATH, AS FIRE, SHALL DEVOUR YOU; your...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 33:11 conceive H2029 (H8799) chaff H2842 forth H3205 (H8799) stubble H7179 breath H7307 fire H784 devour...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    BEWAILING THE TREACHERY OF THE ENEMY (ISAIAH 33:7). Meanwhile the Assyrian advance continued. Yahweh had promised action, but had not yet acted. He was waiting above for the right time to arrive. All...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    CHAPTER 33 THE SIXTH WOE AGAINST THOSE WHO DESPOIL OTHERS AND WHO ARE TREACHEROUS. The sixth woe seems in context to be directed against Assyria for some treacherous act. We can compare and contrast h...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The distress of Judah and Jerusalem because of coming woes. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The righteous God pays sinners in their own coin. When they have filled up the measure of their ini...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 33:1. _Woe to thee,_ thou spoiler, who hast not been spoiled; _AND THOU PLUNDERER, WHO HAST NOT BEEN PLUNDERED._ When thou hast ceased to spoil, thou shalt be spoiled; When thou art weary of...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    GOD AVENGING HIS OWN ELECT Isaiah 33:7 _Behold, their valiant ones shall cry without, &c._ I. A PICTURE OF DESOLATION. The picture has two distinct points of interest— 1. _Man_ (Isaiah 33:7). Desola...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION X. A PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA (Isaiah 33:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 33:1 THE JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now chapter 33 begins with a warning to the Assyrians. Woe unto thee that spoilest, and you have not been spoiled; you that deal treacherously, you've not been dealt treacherously with! (Isaiah 33:1)...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Acts 5:4; Isaiah 10:7; Isaiah 17:13; Isaiah 29:5; Isaiah 30:30;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Stubble — Instead of solid corn. Your great hopes and designs, shall be utterly disappointed. Your breath — Your rage against my people shall bring ruin upon yourselves....

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