You overthrew your adversaries by your great majesty. You unleashed your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
Exodus 5:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised So the people scattered throughout the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble instead of straw. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition So the people were scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather the short stubble instead of straw. American Standard Version (1901) So the people were scattered abroad throughout all the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. Common English Bible So the people spread out all through the land of Egypt to gather stubble for straw. Catholic Public Domain Version And the people were dispersed through all the land of Egypt, in order to gather straw. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the people was scattered through all the land of Egypt to gather straw. |
You overthrew your adversaries by your great majesty. You unleashed your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.
Go and get straw yourselves wherever you can find it, but there will be no reduction at all in your workload.” ’
The overseers insisted, ‘Finish your assigned work each day, just as you did when straw was provided.’
Look, they are like stubble; fire burns them. They cannot rescue themselves from the power of the flame. This is not a coal for warming themselves, or a fire to sit beside!
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of Armies, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
They bound on the tops of the mountains. Their sound is like the sound of chariots, like the sound of fiery flames consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for war.
Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph, a burning flame, but the house of Esau will be stubble; Jacob will set them on fire and consume Edom. Therefore no survivor will remain of the house of Esau, for the Lord has spoken.
For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry.
If anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or straw,