Isaiah 28:27

Bible in Basic English 1965

For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.

Cross References

2 Kings 13:7

For out of all his army, Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen and ten carriages and ten thousand footmen; the king of Aram had given them up to destruction, crushing them like dust.

Proverbs 20:26

A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.

Isaiah 28:26

For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.

Isaiah 28:28

Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.

Isaiah 41:15

See, I will make you like a new grain-crushing instrument with teeth, crushing the mountains small, and making the hills like dry stems.

Jeremiah 10:24

O Lord, put me right, but with wise purpose; not in your wrath, or you will make me small.

Jeremiah 46:28

Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.

Amos 1:3

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have been crushing Gilead with iron grain-crushing instruments.

Matthew 23:23

You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.