KJV King James Version
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.
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Isaiah 28:28
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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Grain for bread must be ground, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of the cart roll over it, the horses do not crush it.
WEB World English Bible
Bread flour must be ground; so he will not always be threshing it. Although he drives the wheel of his threshing cart over it, his horses don’t grind it.
ASV American Standard Version
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.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Bread -corn is beaten small, For not for ever doth he sorely thresh it, Nor crushed it hath a wheel of his cart, Nor do his hoofs beat it small.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 28
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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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
לֶ֣חֶםH3899 · le.chemfoodיוּדָ֔קH1854 · da.qaqto crushכִּ֛יH3588 · kiforלֹ֥אH3808 · lonotלָנֶ֖צַחH5331 · ne.tsachperpetuityאָד֣וֹשׁH1758 · dushto treadיְדוּשֶׁ֑נּוּH1758 · dushto treadוְ֠הָמַםH2000 · ha.mamto confuseגִּלְגַּ֧לH1536 · gil.galwheelעֶגְלָת֛וֹH5699 · a.ga.lahcartוּפָרָשָׁ֖יוH6571 · pa.rashhorseלֹֽא־H3808 · lonotיְדֻקֶּֽנּוּ׃H1854 · da.qaqto crush
Cross-references
1 Corinthians 9:9-10For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?John 12:24Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.Matthew 3:12Whose fan [is] in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.Isaiah 21:10O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.1 Corinthians 3:9For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, [ye are] God’s building.Matthew 13:37-43He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;Amos 9:9For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.Luke 22:31-32And the Lord said, Simon, Simon, behold, Satan hath desired [to have] you, that he may sift [you] as wheat:
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