Parallel Verses
Amplified
“You have conceived dried grass, you will give birth to stubble;
My breath is a fire that will consume you.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
Holman Bible
you will give birth to stubble.
Your breath is fire that will consume you.
International Standard Version
You conceive dried grass, you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.
A Conservative Version
Ye shall conceive chaff. Ye shall bring forth stubble. Your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
American Standard Version
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
Bible in Basic English
Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.
Darby Translation
Ye shall conceive dry grass, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath shall devour you as fire.
Julia Smith Translation
Ye shall conceive dry grass, ye shall bring forth straw: your spirit of fire shall consume you.
King James 2000
You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
Lexham Expanded Bible
You conceive dry grass, you bring forth stubble; your breath [is] a fire; it will consume you.
Modern King James verseion
You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring out stubble; your breath, like fire, shall devour you.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Ye shall conceive stubble, and bear straw, and your spirit shall be the fire, that it may consume you.
NET Bible
You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.
New Heart English Bible
You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
The Emphasized Bible
Ye shall conceive chaff Ye shall bring forth stubble, - Your own breath, like fire, shall devour you.
Webster
Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
World English Bible
You will conceive chaff. You will bring forth stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.
Youngs Literal Translation
Ye conceive chaff, ye bear stubble, Your spirit! -- fire devoureth you.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 33:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Lord Warns His Enemies
10
“Now I will arise,” says the Lord.
“Now I will be exalted; now I will be lifted up.
“You have conceived dried grass, you will give birth to stubble;
My breath is a fire that will consume you.
“The peoples will be burned to lime,
Like thorns cut down which are burned in the fire.
Cross References
Psalm 7:14
Behold, the [wicked and irreverent] man is pregnant with sin,
And he conceives mischief and gives birth to lies.
Isaiah 59:4
No one sues righteously [but for the sake of doing injury to others—to take some undue advantage], and no one pleads [his case] in truth; [but rather]
They trust in empty arguments and speak lies;
They conceive trouble and bring forth injustice.
James 1:15
Then when the illicit desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin has run its course, it gives birth to death.
Job 15:35
“They conceive mischief and bring forth wickedness,
And their inmost soul prepares deceit and fraud.”
Psalm 2:1
And why do the people devise a vain and hopeless plot?
Psalm 83:5-18
For they have conspired together with one mind;
Against You they make a covenant—
Isaiah 1:31
The strong man will become tinder,
And his work a spark.
So both will burn together
And there will be none to quench them.
Isaiah 5:24
Therefore, as the tongue of fire consumes the stubble [from straw]
And the dry grass collapses into the flame,
So their root will become like rot and their blossom blow away like fine dust;
Because they have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts
And despised and discarded the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Isaiah 8:9-10
“Be broken [in pieces], O peoples, and be shattered!
Listen, all you [our enemies from the] far countries.
Prepare yourselves [for war], and be shattered;
Prepare yourselves [for war], and be shattered.
Isaiah 10:7-14
Yet it is not Assyria’s intention [to do My will],
Nor does it plan so in its heart,
But instead it is its purpose to destroy
And to cut off many nations.
Isaiah 17:13
The nations roar on like the roaring of many waters,
But God will rebuke them and they will flee far away,
And be chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind,
Or like whirling dust before the storm.
Isaiah 26:18
We have been with child, we have twisted and struggled in labor;
We gave birth, as it seems, only to wind.
We could not accomplish salvation for the earth,
Nor were inhabitants of the world
Isaiah 29:5-8
But the multitude of your enemies [that assault you] will become like fine dust,
And the multitude of the tyrants like the chaff which
And it will happen in an instant, suddenly [that your enemy is destroyed].
Isaiah 30:30-33
And the Lord will make His majestic voice heard,
And show the descending of His arm [striking] in [His] fierce anger,
And in the flame of a devouring fire,
In the crashing sound of heavy rain, cloudburst, and hailstones.
Isaiah 31:8-9
Then the Assyrian will fall by a sword not of man,
And a sword not of man will devour him.
And he will flee from the sword [of God],
And his young men will become forced labor.
Isaiah 37:23-29
“Whom have you taunted and blasphemed?
And against whom have you raised your voice
And haughtily lifted up your eyes?
Against the Holy One of Israel!
Nahum 1:5-10
The mountains quake before Him
And the hills melt away;
Indeed the earth is shaken by His presence—
Yes, the world and all that dwell in it.
Acts 5:4
As long as it remained [unsold], did it not remain your own [to do with as you pleased]? And after it was sold, was the money not under your control? Why is it that you have conceived this act [of hypocrisy and deceit] in your heart? You have not [simply] lied to people, but to God.”