You will conceive chaff; you will give birth to stubble. Your breath is fire that will consume you.

你们要怀的是糠秕，要生的是碎秸；你们的气就是吞灭自己的火。

你们怀的是糠秕，生的是碎秸；你们的气息如火吞灭自己。

你们怀的是糠秕，生的是碎秸；你们的气息如火吞灭自己。

你们所谋的像糠秕，所行的如碎秸，毫无价值。你们的气息会像火一样烧灭你们自己。

你们所怀的是糠秕，所生的是碎秸；我的气息必像火一般吞灭你们。

你们所怀的是干草，所生的是麦秸；你们的鼻息是吞噬自己的火。

你們要懷的是糠粃，要生的是碎稭；你們的氣就是吞滅自己的火。

你們懷的是糠粃，生的是碎稭；你們的氣息如火吞滅自己。

你們懷的是糠粃，生的是碎稭；你們的氣息如火吞滅自己。

你們所謀的像糠秕，所行的如碎稭，毫無價值。你們的氣息會像火一樣燒滅你們自己。

你們所懷的是糠秕，所生的是碎稭；我的氣息必像火一般吞滅你們。

你們孕懷着乾草，產生了碎稭；你們的氣就是火、是那吞滅你們自己的。

你們所懷的是乾草，所生的是麥稭；你們的鼻息是吞噬自己的火。

爾將孕秕穅、產草芥、爾氣乃火、焚燬己身、

敵之氣燄、如火之烈、災及其身、譬彼懷妊、所孕者秕糠、所產者草芥、

爾如懷孕、所孕者秕糠、所產者草芥、爾氣如火、將爾焚燬、

You conceive chaff, you give birth to straw; your breath is a fire that consumes you.

Assyria, your plans and actions are like straw. Your anger is a fire that will destroy you.

You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble; your breath is a fire that will consume you.

You Assyrians produce nothing but dry grass and stubble. Your own breath will turn to fire and consume you.

You have conceived chaff, you will give birth to stubble; My breath will consume you like a fire.

You shall conceive chaff, You shall bring forth stubble; Your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.

You will conceive chaff; you will give birth to stubble. Your breath is fire that will consume you.

Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath,[ as] fire, shall devour you.

You conceive straw, you give birth to chaff; your breath is a fire that destroys you.

You will conceive chaff. You will give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will devour you.

No one makes claims justly; no one pleads honestly. They trust in empty and worthless words; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.

See, the wicked one is pregnant with evil, conceives trouble, and gives birth to deceit.

Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.

Who is it you have mocked and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!You have mocked the Lord through your servants. You have said,“ With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars, its choice cypress trees. I came to its distant heights, its densest forest.I dug wells and drank water in foreign lands. I dried up all the streams of Egypt with the soles of my feet.”Have you not heard? I designed it long ago; I planned it in days gone by. I have now brought it to pass, and you have crushed fortified cities into piles of rubble.Their inhabitants have become powerless, dismayed, and ashamed. They are plants of the field, tender grass, grass on the rooftops, blasted by the east wind.But I know your sitting down, your going out and your coming in, and your raging against me.Because your raging against me and your arrogance have reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will make you go back the way you came.

Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes straw and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will become like something rotten and their blossoms will blow away like dust, for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Armies, and they have despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Band together, peoples, and be broken; pay attention, all you distant lands; prepare for war, and be broken; prepare for war, and be broken.Devise a plan; it will fail. Make a prediction; it will not happen. For God is with us.

The strong one will become tinder, and his work a spark; both will burn together, with no one to extinguish the flames.

Then Assyria will fall, but not by human sword; a sword will devour him, but not one made by man. He will flee from the sword; his young men will be put to forced labor.His rock will pass away because of fear, and his officers will be afraid because of the signal flag. This is the LORD’s declaration— whose fire is in Zion and whose furnace is in Jerusalem.

Your many foes will be like fine dust, and many of the ruthless, like blowing chaff. Then suddenly, in an instant,you will be punished by the LORD of Armies with thunder, earthquake, and loud noise, storm, tempest, and a flame of consuming fire.All the many nations going out to battle against Ariel— all the attackers, the siege works against her, and those who oppress her— will then be like a dream, a vision in the night.It will be like a hungry one who dreams he is eating, then wakes and is still hungry; and like a thirsty one who dreams he is drinking, then wakes and is still thirsty, longing for water. So it will be for all the many nations who go to battle against Mount Zion.

For they have conspired with one mind; they form an alliance against you—the tents of Edom and the Ishmaelites, Moab and the Hagrites,Gebal, Ammon, and Amalek, Philistia with the inhabitants of Tyre.Even Assyria has joined them; they lend support to the sons of Lot. SelahDeal with them as you did with Midian, as you did with Sisera and Jabin at the Kishon River.They were destroyed at En-dor; they became manure for the ground.Make their nobles like Oreb and Zeeb, and all their tribal leaders like Zebah and Zalmunna,who said,“ Let’s seize God’s pastures for ourselves.”Make them like tumbleweed, my God, like straw before the wind.As fire burns a forest, as a flame blazes through mountains,so pursue them with your tempest and terrify them with your storm.Cover their faces with shame so that they will seek your name, LORD.Let them be put to shame and terrified forever; let them perish in disgrace.May they know that you alone— whose name is the LORD— are the Most High over the whole earth.

They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb prepares deception.

Why do the nations rage and the peoples plot in vain?

And the LORD will make the splendor of his voice heard and reveal his arm striking in angry wrath and a flame of consuming fire, in driving rain, a torrent, and hailstones.Assyria will be shattered by the voice of the LORD. He will strike with a rod.And every stroke of the appointed staff that the LORD brings down on him will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres; he will fight against him with brandished weapons.Indeed! Topheth has been ready for the king for a long time. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, kindles it.

But this is not what he intends; this is not what he plans. It is his intent to destroy and to cut off many nations.For he says,“ Aren’t all my commanders kings?Isn’t Calno like Carchemish? Isn’t Hamath like Arpad? Isn’t Samaria like Damascus?As my hand seized the kingdoms of worthless images, kingdoms whose idols exceeded those of Jerusalem and Samaria,and as I did to Samaria and its worthless images will I not also do to Jerusalem and its idols?”But when the Lord finishes all his work against Mount Zion and Jerusalem, he will say,“ I will punish the king of Assyria for his arrogant acts and the proud look in his eyes.”For he said: I have done this by my own strength and wisdom, for I am clever. I abolished the borders of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty warrior, I subjugated the inhabitants.My hand has reached out, as if into a nest, to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered the whole earth. No wing fluttered; no beak opened or chirped.

The mountains quake before him, and the hills melt; the earth trembles at his presence— the world and all who live in it.Who can withstand his indignation? Who can endure his burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before him.The LORD is good, a stronghold in a day of distress; he cares for those who take refuge in him.But he will completely destroy Nineveh with an overwhelming flood, and he will chase his enemies into darkness.Whatever you plot against the LORD, he will bring it to complete destruction; oppression will not rise up a second time.For they will be consumed like entangled thorns, like the drink of a drunkard and like straw that is fully dry.

Wasn’t it yours while you possessed it? And after it was sold, wasn’t it at your disposal? Why is it that you planned this thing in your heart? You have not lied to people but to God.”

The nations rage like the rumble of a huge torrent. He rebukes them, and they flee far away, driven before the wind like chaff on the hills and like tumbleweeds before a gale.

We became pregnant, we writhed in pain; we gave birth to wind. We have won no victories on earth, and the earth’s inhabitants have not fallen.