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Isaiah 47:14

Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.

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ASV

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.

KJV

Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it.

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
הִנֵּ֨הhi.Nehthere!H2009 →
הָי֤וּha.Yuthey have becomeH1961 →
כְקַשׁ֙khe.Kashlike chaffH7179 →
אֵ֣שׁ'esha fireH784 →
שְׂרָפָ֔תַםse.ra.Fa.tamit has burned themH8313 →
לֹֽא־lo'-notH3808 →
יַצִּ֥ילוּya.Tzi.luthey will deliverH5337 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
נַפְשָׁ֖םnaf.Shamself theirH5315 →
מִיַּ֣דmi.Yadfrom [the] hand ofH3027 →
לֶֽהָבָ֑הle.ha.Vah[the] flameH3852 →
אֵין־'ein-there notH369 →
גַּחֶ֣לֶתga.Che.let[will be] coalH1513 →
לַחְמָ֔םlach.Mamto warm themH2552 →
א֖וּר'ura fireH217 →
לָשֶׁ֥בֶתla.She.vetto sitH3427 →
נֶגְדּֽוֹ׃neg.Dobefore itH5048 →

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Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.Malachi 4:1“For behold, the day is coming, burning like a furnace, when all the arrogant and every evildoer will be stubble; the day is coming when I will set them ablaze,” says the LORD of Hosts. “Not a root or branch will be left to them.”Ezekiel 15:7And I will set My face against them. Though they may have escaped the fire, yet another fire will consume them. And when I set My face against them, you will know that I am the LORD.Isaiah 10:17And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.Matthew 10:28Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.Isaiah 41:2Who has aroused one from the east and called him to his feet in righteousness? He hands nations over to him and subdues kings before him. He turns them to dust with his sword, to windblown chaff with his bow.Exodus 15:7You overthrew Your adversaries by Your great majesty. You unleashed Your burning wrath; it consumed them like stubble.Jeremiah 51:58This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Babylon’s thick walls will be leveled, and her high gates consumed by fire. So the labor of the people will be for nothing; the nations will exhaust themselves to fuel the flames.”Jeremiah 51:25–26“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.Isaiah 5:24Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.Joel 2:5With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.Revelation 18:21Then a mighty angel picked up a stone the size of a great millstone and cast it into the sea, saying: “With such violence the great city of Babylon will be cast down, never to be seen again.Jeremiah 51:32The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”Obadiah 1:18Then 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 it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.Jeremiah 51:30The warriors of Babylon have stopped fighting; they sit in their strongholds. Their strength is exhausted; they have become like women. Babylon’s homes have been set ablaze, the bars of her gates are broken.Isaiah 30:14It will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”Matthew 16:26What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?Psalms 83:13–15Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.

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The Prophet Isaiah — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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