Isaiah 28:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²⁸ Bread corn is ground; for he will not ever be threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he doth not grind 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 thou my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard from the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

Isaiah 28:27

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.

Isaiah 28:29

This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in wisdom.

Jeremiah 10:24

O LORD, correct me, but with judgement; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

Amos 9:9

For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

Numbers 7:3

and they brought their oblation before the LORD, six covered wagons, and twelve oxen; a wagon for every two of the princes, and for each one an ox: and they presented them before the tabernacle.

Matthew 3:12

whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly cleanse his threshing-floor; and he will gather his wheat into the garner, but the chaff he will burn up with unquenchable fire.

John 12:24

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a grain of wheat fall into the earth and die, it abideth by itself alone; but if it die, it beareth much fruit.

1 Corinthians 3:9

For we are God's fellow-workers: ye are God's husbandry, God's building.