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Isaiah 21:10

8 Then the lookout shouted: “Day after day, my lord, I stand on the watchtower; night after night I stay at my post.

9 Look, here come the riders, horsemen in pairs.” And one answered, saying: “Fallen, fallen is Babylon! All the images of her gods lie shattered on the ground!”

O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.

11 This is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

12 The watchman replies, “Morning has come, but also the night. If you would inquire, then inquire. Come back yet again.”

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.
KJV
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
WEB
You are my threshing, and the grain of my floor!” That which I have heard from the LORD of Armies, the God of Israel, I have declared to you.
ASV
O thou my threshing, and the grain of my floor! that which I have heard from Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
DARBY
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor! What I have heard of Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
BLB
O my threshing, and the son of my threshing floor, that which I have heard from YHWH of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you⁺!
ÅB
Du mitt knuste, mitt gjennomtreskede folk! Det jeg har hørt av Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud, har jeg kunngjort for dere.
OTB
Å, mitt knuste folk, tresket på treskegulvet, det jeg har hørt fra Herren, Allhærs Gud, Israels Gud, erklærer jeg for dere.
B1930
Du mitt knuste, mitt gjennemtreskede folk! Det jeg har hørt av Herren, hærskarenes Gud, Israels Gud, har jeg kunngjort for eder.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Jeremiah 51:33

    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”

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  • Micah 4:13

    Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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  • Ezekiel 3:17–19

    “Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.

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  • Isaiah 41:15–16

    Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.

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  • Matthew 3:12

    His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”

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  • 2 Kings 13:7

    Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

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  • Habakkuk 3:12

    You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.

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  • Acts 20:26–27

    Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.

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