My people who have been crushed on the threshing-floor, I have declared to you what I have heard from the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel.
Isaiah 28:28 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Bread grain is crushed, but is not threshed endlessly. Though the wheel of the farmer’s cart rumbles, his horses do not crush it. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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 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. |
My people who have been crushed on the threshing-floor, I have declared to you what I have heard from the Lord of Armies, the God of Israel.
Certainly black cumin is not threshed with a threshing board, and a cartwheel is not rolled over the cumin. But black cumin is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
This also comes from the Lord of Armies. He gives wondrous advice; he gives great wisdom.
Discipline me, Lord, but with justice – not in your anger, or you will reduce me to nothing.
for I am about to give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, as one shakes a sieve, but not a pebble will fall to the ground.
They brought as their offering before the Lord six covered carts and twelve oxen, a cart from every two leaders and an ox from each one, and presented them in front of the tabernacle.
His winnowing shovel is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor and gather his wheat into the barn. But the chaff he will burn with fire that never goes out.’
Truly I tell you, unless a grain of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains by itself. But if it dies, it produces much fruit.