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Isaiah 33:11–12

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Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
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From verse 11

  1. Isaiah 59:4Rank 1 from verse 11
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    4None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

  2. Psalms 7:14Rank 2 from verse 11
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    14Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.

  3. James 1:15Rank 3 from verse 11
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    15Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.

  4. Acts 5:4Rank 4 from verse 11
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    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.

  5. Isaiah 1:31Rank 5 from verse 11
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    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.

  6. Isaiah 10:7–14Rank 6 from verse 11
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    7Howbeit 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.

    8For he saith, Are not my princes altogether kings?

    9Is not Calno as Carchemish? is not Hamath as Arpad? is not Samaria as Damascus?

    10As my hand hath found the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria;

    11Shall I not, as I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and her idols?

    12Wherefore it shall come to pass, that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

    13For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

    14And my hand hath found as a nest the riches of the people: and as one gathereth eggs that are left, have I gathered all the earth; and there was none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped.

  7. Isaiah 17:13Rank 7 from verse 11
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    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.

  8. Isaiah 26:18Rank 8 from verse 11
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    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.

  9. Isaiah 29:5–8Rank 9 from verse 11
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    5Moreover 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.

    6Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.

    7¶ And the multitude of all the nations that fight against Ariel, even all that fight against her and her munition, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision.

    8It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

  10. Isaiah 30:30–33Rank 10 from verse 11
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    30And 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.

    31For through the voice of the Lord shall the Assyrian be beaten down, which smote with a rod.

    32And in every place where the grounded staff shall pass, which the Lord shall lay upon him, it shall be with tabrets and harps: and in battles of shaking will he fight with it.

    33For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

  11. Isaiah 31:8–9Rank 11 from verse 11
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    8¶ Then 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.

    9And he shall pass over to his strong hold for fear, and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.

  12. Isaiah 37:23–29Rank 12 from verse 11
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    23Whom 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.

    24By thy servants hast thou reproached the Lord, and hast said, By the multitude of my chariots am I come up to the height of the mountains, to the sides of Lebanon; and I will cut down the tall cedars thereof, and the choice fir trees thereof: and I will enter into the height of his border, and the forest of his Carmel.

    25I have digged, and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the rivers of the besieged places.

    26Hast thou not heard long ago, how I have done it; and of ancient times, that I have formed it? now have I brought it to pass, that thou shouldest be to lay waste defenced cities into ruinous heaps.

    27Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

    28But I know thy abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against me.

    29Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

  13. Isaiah 5:24Rank 13 from verse 11
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    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.

  14. Isaiah 8:9–10Rank 14 from verse 11
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    9¶ Associate 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.

    10Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

  15. Job 15:35Rank 15 from verse 11
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    35They conceive mischief, and bring forth vanity, and their belly prepareth deceit.

  16. Nahum 1:5–10Rank 16 from verse 11
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    5The mountains quake at him, and the hills melt, and the earth is burned at his presence, yea, the world, and all that dwell therein.

    6Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

    7The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him.

    8But with an overrunning flood he will make an utter end of the place thereof, and darkness shall pursue his enemies.

    9What do ye imagine against the Lord? he will make an utter end: affliction shall not rise up the second time.

    10For while they be folden together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

  17. Psalms 2:1Rank 17 from verse 11
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    1WHY do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?

  18. Psalms 83:5–18Rank 18 from verse 11
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    5For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee:

    6The tabernacles of Edom, and the Ishmaelites; of Moab, and the Hagarenes;

    7Gebal, and Ammon, and Amalek; the Philistines with the inhabitants of Tyre;

    8Assur also is joined with them: they have holpen the children of Lot. Selah.

    9Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:

    10Which perished at En-dor: they became as dung for the earth.

    11Make their nobles like Oreb, and like Zeeb: yea, all their princes as Zebah, and as Zalmunna:

    12Who said, Let us take to ourselves the houses of God in possession.

    13O my God, make them like a wheel; as the stubble before the wind.

    14As the fire burneth a wood, and as the flame setteth the mountains on fire;

    15So persecute them with thy tempest, and make them afraid with thy storm.

    16Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek thy name, O Lord.

    17Let them be confounded and troubled for ever; yea, let them be put to shame, and perish:

    18That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.

From verse 12

  1. 2 Samuel 23:6–7Rank 1 from verse 12
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    6¶ But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

    7But the man that shall touch them must be fenced with iron and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire in the same place.

  2. Isaiah 27:4Rank 2 from verse 12
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    4Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

  3. Amos 2:1Rank 3 from verse 12
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    1THUS saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime:

  4. Isaiah 10:17Rank 4 from verse 12
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    17And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

  5. Isaiah 37:36Rank 5 from verse 12
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    36Then the angel of the Lord went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses.

  6. Isaiah 9:18Rank 6 from verse 12
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    18¶ For wickedness burneth as the fire: it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forest, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke.

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Isaiah 33:11

COMBINED MEANING

ye

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The second-person plural subject pronoun, referring to the persons being addressed as those who are, do, or receive the stated predicate.

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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conceive

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Sense 1: To become pregnant. Sense 2: To form an idea, plan, purpose, or understanding in the mind.

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chaff

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The light, dry husks or refuse separated from grain, easily driven by wind or burned.

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forth

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1. Outward, away, or forward from a place, person, possession, or former position. 2. In constructions of bearing or producing, into birth, growth, fruit, or another stated result. 3. With verbs such as put, stretch, spread, or reach, outward by extension or exertion. 4. In constructions of showing, speaking, issuing, or displaying, into view, expression, publication, or effect. 5. Onward from a stated time or point, as in from that time forth.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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stubble

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The dry stalks left after grain is cut or threshed, easily driven or burned.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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your

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The possessive form of ye or you, ordinarily plural, marking what belongs to, concerns, proceeds from, or stands in relation to the persons addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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breath

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Sense 1: Air drawn in or breathed out. Sense 2: The breath by which bodily life is sustained; by extension, bodily life.

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fire

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Burning flame and heat that gives light, consumes, purifies, or destroys.

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you

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The second-person plural pronoun referring to those being addressed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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Isaiah 33:12

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people

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Persons collectively; a nation, community, or group considered as a body.

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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burnings

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1. Fires or continued fiery heat. 2. Acts or processes of burning. 3. Ceremonial burning of odours.

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lime

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A substance produced by burning bones or other material.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

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thorns

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Sense 1: Sharp spines or prickles. Sense 2: Thorn-bearing plants and figures of things that prick, obstruct, or grieve.

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cut

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Sense 1: To divide, sever, remove, or wound with a sharp instrument. Sense 2: Figuratively, to grieve deeply or bring to an end.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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burned

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Sense 1: Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of burn, meaning to consume, injure, heat, dry, or harden by fire or intense heat. Sense 2: To be on fire.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

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fire

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Burning flame and heat that gives light, consumes, purifies, or destroys.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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33:10Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

33:11Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

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33:12And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.

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33:13¶ Hear, ye that are far off, what I have done; and, ye that are near, acknowledge my might.

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