KJV King James Version
Behold, 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.
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Isaiah 41:15
Behold, 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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
WEB World English Bible
Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.
ASV American Standard Version
Behold, I have made thee to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest.
Surrounding context — Isaiah 41
12 Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, [even] them that contended with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.
13 For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
14 Fear not, thou worm Jacob, [and] ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel.
15 Behold, 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.
16 Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the LORD, [and] shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.
17 [When] the poor and needy seek water, and [there is] none, [and] their tongue faileth for thirst, I the LORD will hear them, [I] the God of Israel will not forsake them.
18 I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
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הִנֵּ֣הH2009 · hin.nehbeholdשַׂמְתִּ֗יךְH7760 · sumto set: makeלְמוֹרַג֙H4173 · mo.ragthreshing sledחָר֣וּץH2742 · cha.rutssharpחָדָ֔שׁH2319 · cha.dashNew (Gate)בַּ֖עַלH1167 · ba.almasterפִּֽיפִיּ֑וֹתH6374 · pi.phiy.yahtoothתָּד֤וּשׁH1758 · dushto treadהָרִים֙H2022 · harmountain: mountוְתָדֹ֔קH1854 · da.qaqto crushוּגְבָע֖וֹתH1389 · giv.ahGibeath-(elohim)כַּמֹּ֥ץH4671 · motschaffתָּשִֽׂים׃H7760 · sumto set: make
Cross-references
Micah 4:13Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the LORD, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.2 Corinthians 10:4-5(For the weapons of our warfare [are] not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;)Zechariah 4:7Who [art] thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel [thou shalt become] a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone [thereof with] shoutings, [crying], Grace, grace unto it.Habakkuk 3:12Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.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.Isaiah 28:27For 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.Psalm 18:42Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
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