KJV King James Version
For the fitches are not threshed with a 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.
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Isaiah 28:27
For the fitches are not threshed with a 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
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.
WEB World English Bible
For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
For not with a sharp-pointed thing threshed are fitches, And the wheel of a cart on cummin turned round, For with a staff beaten out are fitches, And cummin with a rod.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 28
24 Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
25 When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?
26 For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him.
27 For the fitches are not threshed with a 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.
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.
29 This also cometh forth from the LORD of hosts, [which] is wonderful in counsel, [and] excellent in working.
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כִּ֣יH3588 · kiforלֹ֤אH3808 · lonotבֶֽחָרוּץ֙H2742 · cha.rutssharpי֣וּדַשׁH1758 · dushto treadקֶ֔צַחH7100 · qe.tsachdillוְאוֹפַ֣ןH212 · o.phanwheelעֲגָלָ֔הH5699 · a.ga.lahcartעַל־H5921 · aluponכַּמֹּ֖ןH3646 · kam.moncumminיוּסָּ֑בH5437 · sa.vavto turn: turnכִּ֧יH3588 · kiforבַמַּטֶּ֛הH4294 · mat.tehtribe: rodיֵחָ֥בֶטH2251 · cha.vatto beatקֶ֖צַחH7100 · qe.tsachdillוְכַמֹּ֥ןH3646 · kam.moncumminבַּשָּֽׁבֶט׃H7626 · she.vettribe: staff
Cross-references
Isaiah 41:15Behold, 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.Amos 1:3Thus saith the LORD; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away [the punishment] thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:Jeremiah 46:28Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I [am] with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.2 Kings 13:7Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.Jeremiah 10:24O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.Isaiah 27:7-8Hath he smitten him, as he smote those that smote him? [or] is he slain according to the slaughter of them that are slain by him?
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