Isaiah 28:27
For black cumin is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin. Instead, black cumin is beaten with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
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Other Translations
King James Version 1769 (Standard 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.
KJV1611 – Modern English
For the black cumin is not threshed with a threshing instrument, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cumin; but the black cumin is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
King James Version 1611 (Original)
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.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
For the fitches{H7100} are not threshed{H1758} with a sharp [threshing] instrument,{H2742} neither is a cart{H5699} wheel{H212} turned about{H5437} upon the cummin;{H3646} but the fitches{H7100} are beaten out{H2251} with a staff,{H4294} and the cummin{H3646} with a rod.{H7626}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
For the fitches{H7100} are not threshed{H1758}{(H8714)} with a threshing instrument{H2742}, neither is a cart{H5699} wheel{H212} turned about{H5437}{(H8714)} upon the cummin{H3646}; but the fitches{H7100} are beaten out{H2251}{(H8735)} with a staff{H4294}, and the cummin{H3646} with a rod{H7626}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
For he treadeth not the fitches out with a wayne, nether bringeth he the cart here and there ouer the comyn, but he throssheth ye fitches out with a flale, and the comyn with a rod.
Geneva Bible (1560)
For fitches shall not be threshed with a threshing instrument, neither shall a cart wheele be turned about vpon the cummin: but ye fitches are beaten out with a staffe, and cummin with a rod.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
For fitches shall not be threshed with an harrowe, neither shall a cart wheele be brought thorowe the comin: but the fitches are beaten out with a staffe, and comin with a rodde.
Authorized King James Version (1611)
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.
Webster's Bible (1833)
For the dill are not threshed with a sharp [threshing] instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about on the cumin; but the dill are beaten out with a staff, and the cumin with a rod.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
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.
American Standard Version (1901)
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.
American Standard Version (1901)
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.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
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.
World English Bible (2000)
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.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
Certainly caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick, and cumin seed with a flail.
Referenced Verses
- Amos 1:3 : 3 Thus says the LORD: 'For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not revoke punishment, because they threshed Gilead with sharp implements of iron.'
- 2 Kgs 13:7 : 7 Nothing was left for Jehoahaz's army except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, for the king of Aram had destroyed them, making them like dust to be trampled.
- Isa 27:7-8 : 7 Has the LORD struck them as he struck those who struck them? Or have they been killed as their slayers were killed? 8 With exact measure, by sending her away, you contend with her. He drives her out with his fierce wind on the day of the east wind.
- Isa 41:15 : 15 See, I will make you into a sharp threshing sledge, new and covered with many blades. You will thresh the mountains and crush them and reduce the hills to chaff.
- Jer 10:24 : 24 Discipline me, Lord, but only in due measure—not in Your anger, or You will reduce me to nothing.
- Jer 46:28 : 28 Do not be afraid, my servant Jacob, declares the Lord, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations where I have scattered you, I will not completely destroy you. I will discipline you justly, but I will not leave you entirely unpunished.
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28 Grain must be ground to make bread, but it is not endlessly threshed. Though the wheels of a cart roll over it and its horses trample it, they do not crush it entirely.
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24 Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he continually break up and harrow his ground?
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7 with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the binder of sheaves his arms.
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23 He will also send rain for the seed you sow in the ground, and the food that comes from the land will be rich and plentiful. On that day your cattle will graze in broad meadows.
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- Deut 28:38-392 verses69%
38 You will sow much seed in the field but gather little, because locusts will consume it.
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9 When you reap the harvest of your land, do not reap to the very edges of your field or gather the gleanings of your harvest.
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28 The soil produces a crop by itself—first the blade, then the head, and then the full grain on the head.
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15 See, I will make you into a sharp threshing sledge, new and covered with many blades. You will thresh the mountains and crush them and reduce the hills to chaff.
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18 They are like straw before the wind and like chaff carried away by a storm.
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3 A whip is for the horse, a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the back of fools.
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26 A wise king winnows out the wicked; he drives the threshing wheel over them.
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27 Their inhabitants, stripped of strength, were dismayed and put to shame. They were like grass in the field, tender green shoots, grass on the housetops, scorched before it grows up.
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13 Young men toil at the grinding millstones, and boys stumble under heavy loads of wood.
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8 With exact measure, by sending her away, you contend with her. He drives her out with his fierce wind on the day of the east wind.
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9 For behold, I am giving the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes a sieve, but not a single pebble shall fall to the ground.
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17 Cursed will be your basket and your kneading bowl.
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12 His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. He will gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
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10 For it is: command upon command, command upon command, line upon line, line upon line, a little here, a little there.
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24 They are exalted for a little while, but then they are gone; they are brought low and gathered up like all others, and like the heads of grain, they are cut off.