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Isaiah 41:15

God's power and sovereigntyIsrael and the nations

13 For I am the LORD your God, who takes hold of your right hand and tells you: Do not fear, I will help you.

14 Do not fear, O worm of Jacob, O few men of Israel. I will help you,” declares the LORD. “Your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel.

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.

16 You will winnow them, and a wind will carry them away; a gale will scatter them. But you will rejoice in the LORD; you will glory in the Holy One of Israel.

17 The poor and needy seek water, but there is none; their tongues are parched with thirst. I, the LORD, will answer them; I, the God of Israel, will not forsake them.

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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
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.
KJV
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
WEB
Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.
ASV
Behold, I have made thee [to be] a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
DARBY
Behold, I have made of thee a new sharp threshing instrument having double teeth: thou shalt thresh and beat small the mountains, and shalt make the hills as chaff;
BLB
Behold, I am making you sharp, into a new threshing sledge, an owner of teeth; [and] you will thresh the mountains and crush [them], and you will make the hills like chaff.
ÅB
Se, jeg gjør deg til en skarp, ny treskevogn med mange tagger; du skal treske fjell og knuse dem, og hauger skal du gjøre til agner.
OTB
"Se, jeg vil gjøre deg til en ny, skarp treskeslede med mange tenner. Du skal treske fjellene og knuse dem, og redusere høydene til agner.
B1930
Se, jeg gjør dig til en skarp, ny treskevogn med mange tagger; du skal treske fjell og knuse dem, og hauger skal du gjøre til agner.

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Cross references

  • 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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  • 2 Corinthians 10:4–5

    The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

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  • Zechariah 4:7

    What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”

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  • Habakkuk 3:12

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

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  • Isaiah 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.

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  • Isaiah 28:27

    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.

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  • Psalms 18:42

    I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

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