In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
Exodus 5:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) So the people were scattered abroad throughout all 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. |
In the greatness of your excellency, you overthrow those who rise up against you. You send forth your wrath. It consumes them as stubble.
Go yourselves, get straw where you can find it, for nothing of your work shall be diminished.*
The taskmasters were urgent saying, *Fulfill your work quota daily, as when there was straw!*
Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; because they have rejected the law of the LORD of Armies, and despised the word of the Holy One of Yisra'el.
Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.
The house of Ya`akov will be a fire, the house of Yosef a flame, and the house of Esav for stubble. They will burn among them, and devour them. There will not be any remaining to the house of Esav.* Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.
But if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, or stubble;