John Gill Commentary Isaiah 33:11

"Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you." — Isaiah 33:11 (ASV)

You will conceive chaff, you will bring forth stubble, &c.] Signifying that all the counsels, designs, and schemes, of the antichristian party, to continue themselves in their present state, and save themselves from ruin, as well as utterly to destroy the interest of Christ, would be weak, vain, and fruitless; their conceptions and actions, their purposes and attempts, would be alike; would be abortive, like chaff and stubble, and only serve as such for their own destruction: your breath [as] fire will devour you; or, "your spirit" ^F1; your pride and haughtiness, in self praises, commendations, and glorying; your rage, wrath, and fury, against the saints; your blasphemy against God and Christ will be the reason why the fire of God's wrath will consume you. The Targum is, "you have thought for yourselves, O you people, thoughts of wickedness; you have done for yourselves evil works; because of your evil works, my Word will destroy you, as a whirlwind the stubble;" Christ, the essential Word of God.

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FOOTNOTES:

• F1: (Mkxwr) "spiritus vester", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus