Isaiah 28:28
26 For his God instructs and teaches him properly.
27 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.
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
- 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.
- KJV
- Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.
- WEB
- Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.
- ASV
- Bread [grain] is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he doth not grind it.
- DARBY
- Bread [corn] is crushed, because he will not ever be threshing it; and if he drove the wheels of his cart and his horses [over it], he would not crush it.
- BLB
- Bread must be ground, but not forever does the one threshing thresh it; and he runs it over with the wheels of his cart, and his horses do not crush it.
- ÅB
- Blir vel brødkorn knust? Nei, en tresker det ikke uavlatelig, og når en driver sine vognhjul og sine hester over det, knuser en det ikke.
- OTB
- Korn må knuses for å lage brød; man fortsetter ikke å treske det for alltid. Selv om hjulene på en vogn kan rulles over det, bruker man ikke hester til å male korn.
- B1930
- Blir vel brødkorn knust? Nei, en tresker det ikke uavlatelig, og når en driver sine vognhjul og sine hester over det, knuser en det ikke.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Amos 9:9
“For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.
Read in contextIsaiah 21:10
O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.
Read in contextMatthew 13:37–43
He replied, “The One who sows the good seed is the Son of Man.
Read in contextMatthew 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.”
Read in context1 Corinthians 3:9
For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, God’s building.
Read in context1 Corinthians 9:9–10
For it is written in the Law of Moses: “Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.” Is it about oxen that God is concerned?
Read in contextJohn 12:24
Truly, truly, I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a seed; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Read in contextLuke 22:31–32
Simon, Simon, Satan has asked to sift each of you like wheat.
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