Isaiah 28:28 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁸ Grain is crushed for bread, but one does not thresh it forever; one drives the cart wheel and horses over it but does not pulverize it.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ Does one crush bread grain? No, he does not thresh it continuously. But when he has driven his cartwheel and his horses over it, he scatters it [tossing it up to the wind] without having crushed it.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁸ 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.

Common English Bible

²⁸ Bread grain is crushed, but the thresher doesn’t thresh it forever. He drives the cart wheel over it; he spreads it out but doesn’t crush it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ But grain for bread must be crushed. Truly, the thresher cannot thresh it unceasingly, and the cartwheel can neither disrupt it, nor break it with its surface.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁸ But bread-corn shall be broken small; but the thresher shall not thresh it for ever: neither shall the cart-wheel hurt it, nor break it with its teeth.

Isaiah 28:28 Cross References

Isaiah 21:10

O my threshed and winnowed one, what I have heard from the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, I announce to you.

Isaiah 28:27

For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin, but dill is beaten out with a stick and cumin with a rod.

Isaiah 28:29

This also comes from the Lord of hosts; he is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.

Jeremiah 10:24

Correct me, O Lord, but in just measure; not in your anger, or you will bring me to nothing.

Amos 9:9

For I will command and shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes with a sieve but no pebble shall fall to the ground.

Numbers 7:3

They brought their offerings before the Lord, six covered wagons and twelve oxen, a wagon for every two of the leaders and for each one an ox; they presented them before the tabernacle.

Matthew 3:12

His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the granary, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”

John 12:24

Very truly, I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain, but if it dies it bears much fruit.

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God’s coworkers, working together; you are God’s field, God’s building.