They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit.”
Isaiah 33:11 - New Revised Standard Version You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition You conceive chaff, you bring forth stubble; your breath is a fire that consumes you. American Standard Version (1901) Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you. Common English Bible You conceive straw, give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that devours you. Catholic Public Domain Version You will conceive heat. You will give birth to stubble. Your own spirit will devour you like fire. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You shall conceive heat, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath as fire shall devour you. |
They conceive mischief and bring forth evil and their heart prepares deceit.”
See how they conceive evil, and are pregnant with mischief, and bring forth lies.
They make a pit, digging it out, and fall into the hole that they have made.
The strong shall become like tinder, and their work like a spark; they and their work shall burn together, with no one to quench them.
The nations roar like the roaring of many waters, but he will rebuke them, and they will flee far away, chased like chaff on the mountains before the wind and whirling dust before the storm.
we were with child, we writhed, but we gave birth only to wind. We have won no victories on earth, and no one is born to inhabit the world.
Therefore, as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, and as dry grass sinks down in the flame, so their root will become rotten, and their blossom go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the Lord of hosts, and have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
No one brings suit justly, no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas, they speak lies, conceiving mischief and begetting iniquity.
That is why the Lord did not have pity on their young people, or compassion on their orphans and widows; for everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke folly. For all this his anger has not turned away, his hand is stretched out still.
While it remained unsold, did it not remain your own? And after it was sold, were not the proceeds at your disposal? How is it that you have contrived this deed in your heart? You did not lie to us but to God!”
then, when that desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and that sin, when it is fully grown, gives birth to death.