Isaiah 28:27
25 When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.
26 For his God instructs and teaches him properly.
Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
28 Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.
29 This also comes from the LORD of Hosts, who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
- KJV
- For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
- WEB
- For the dill isn’t threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
- ASV
- For the fitches are not threshed with a sharp [threshing] instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
- DARBY
- For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but dill is beaten out with a staff, and cummin with a rod.
- BLB
- For caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But with the staff caraway is beaten out, and the cummin with the rod.
- ÅB
- For en tresker ikke dill med treskeslede, ruller heller ikke vognhjul over karve; men med stav banker en ut dill, og karve med kjepp.
- OTB
- Dill treskes ikke med en slede, og vognhjulet kjøres ikke over karve; men dill slås ut med en stang, og karve med en stokk.
- B1930
- For en tresker ikke dill med treskeslede, ruller heller ikke vognhjul over karve; men med stav banker en ut dill, og karve med kjepp.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Isaiah 41:15
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.
Read in contextIsaiah 27:7–8
Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?
Read in contextJeremiah 10:24
Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice— not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
Read in contextJeremiah 46:28
And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”
Read in context2 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.
Read in contextAmos 1:3
This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.
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