Isaiah 33:11

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, which impelled you against Jerusalem, shall be the cause of your being devoured by the fire of God's anger (; ; ). The fire which you kindled and fanned with your breath, to devour others, shall devour yourself. (AS) FIRE, SHALL DEVOUR YOU - ...

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 power, they shall know that their efforts will be fruitless, and that they will accomplish nothing, even though they be leagued together in vast crowds. The Lord laughs at their madness, in thinking that everything is in their power, when he can instantly, by the slightest expression of his will, restrain and destroy them, though they may be defended by a very powerful army. It is customary in the Scriptures to employ the word _conceptions _for denoting the designs and efforts of men. (Job 15:35.) The metaphor is taken from pregnant women. Men are said to “conceive” and to “bring forth,” when they attempt anything; but he declares that their “conception” shall be fruitless, and

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, shall find him gracious to them; as the day, so let the strength be. If God leaves us to ourselves any morning, we are undone; we must every morning commit ourselves to him, and go forth in his strength to do the work of the day. When God arises, his enemies are scattered. True wisdom and knowledge lead to strength of salvation, which renders us stedfast in the ways of God; and true piety is the only treasure which can never be plundered or spent. The distress Jerusalem was brought into, is described. God's time to appear for his people, is, when all other helpers fail. Let all who hear what God has done, acknowledge that he can do every thing. Sinners in Zion will have much to answer for, abo...

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....

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...

SECTION X. A PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA (Isaiah 33:1.). EXPOSITION ISAIAH 33:1 THE JUDGMENT ON ASSYRIA AND DELIVERANCE OF JERUSALEM, STATED GENERALLY. Events had progressed since the preceding prophecies were delivered. The negotiations carried on with Sennacherib had been futile (Isaiah 33:7), the heavy fine imposed and paid ...

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; beca...

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)_ 4. _The judge in the midst of Zion (Isaiah 33:14)_ 5. _The King beheld in His beauty (Isaiah 33:17)_ 6. _Healing and forgiveness the result of the coming of the King (Isaiah 33:24) _ This is the last mention which is made of the

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 surrender of Jerusalem after he had received an enormous tribute from Hezekiah. This breach of faith would cause the weeping of the ambassadors (Isaiah 33:7). But the chapter is now usually regarded as post-exilic. The parallels in language are with late Psalms, and the list of non-Isaianic words and senses of words is considerable. Nor is it clear that the historical allusions suit the actual circumstances of Isaiah's time. But it would be very precarious in our almost complete ignorance of great stretches of the later history to argue that it must be Maccabean, even if we have reconciled ourselves to the belief that there are Maccabean elements in the Canon of the prophets (p. 425). We mu...

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