11Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
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None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Behold, he travaileth with iniquity, and hath conceived mischief, and brought forth falsehood.
Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: …
And 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.
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-12)Here we have, I. The proud and false Assyrian justly reckoned with for all his fraud and violence, and laid under a woe, Isa. 33:1. Observe, 1. The sin which the enemy had been guilty of. He had spoiled the people of God, and made a prey of them, and herein had broken his treaty of peace with them, and dealt treacherously. Truth and mercy are two such sacred things, and have so much of God in them…
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