Isaiah 28:27

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 1:3 : 3 This is what the LORD says:“Because Damascus has committed three crimes– make that four!– I will not revoke my decree of judgment. They ripped through Gilead like threshing sledges with iron teeth.
  • 2 Kgs 13:7 : 7 Jehoahaz had no army left except for fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and 10,000 foot soldiers. The king of Syria had destroyed his troops and trampled on them like dust.
  • Isa 27:7-8 : 7 Has the LORD struck down Israel like he did their oppressors? Has Israel been killed like their enemies? 8 When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.
  • Isa 41:15 : 15 “Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw.
  • Jer 10:24 : 24 Correct us, LORD, but only in due measure. Do not punish us in anger or you will reduce us to nothing.
  • Jer 46:28 : 28 I, the LORD, tell you not to be afraid, you descendants of Jacob, my servant, for I am with you. Though I completely destroy all the nations where I scatter you, I will not completely destroy you. I will indeed discipline you but only in due measure. I will not allow you to go entirely unpunished.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Isa 28:28-29
    2 verses
    85%

    28Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it.

    29This also comes from the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, who gives supernatural guidance and imparts great wisdom.

  • Isa 28:24-26
    3 verses
    80%

    24Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

    25Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant, sow the seed of the cumin plant, and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places?

    26His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.

  • Ps 129:7
    71%

    7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

  • Isa 30:23-24
    2 verses
    71%

    23He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

    24The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.

  • Deut 25:4
    71%

    4You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.

  • Prov 27:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22If you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him.

    23Pay careful attention to the condition of your flocks, set your mind on your herds,

  • Deut 28:38-39
    2 verses
    69%

    38The Curse of Reversed Status“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

    39You will plant vineyards and cultivate them, but you will not drink wine or gather in grapes, because worms will eat them.

  • Joel 1:17
    69%

    17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

  • Deut 23:25
    69%

    25When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor’s ripe grain.

  • Isa 18:5
    68%

    5For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

  • Exod 9:31-32
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    68%

    31(Now the flax and the barley were struck by the hail, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bud.

    32But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are later crops.)

  • Isa 7:25
    68%

    25They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them.

  • Amos 2:13
    68%

    13Look! I will press you down, like a cart loaded down with grain presses down.

  • Hos 8:7
    67%

    7The Fertility Cultists Will Become Infertile They sow the wind, and so they will reap the whirlwind! The stalk does not have any standing grain; it will not produce any flour. Even if it were to yield grain, foreigners would swallow it all up.

  • Matt 13:29-30
    2 verses
    67%

    29But he said,‘No, since in gathering the darnel you may uproot the wheat along with it.

    30Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers,“First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

  • Lev 19:9
    67%

    9Leaving the Gleanings“‘When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest.

  • Mic 4:12
    67%

    12But they do not know what the LORD is planning; they do not understand his strategy. He has gathered them like stalks of grain to be threshed at the threshing floor.

  • Mark 4:28
    67%

    28By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

  • Isa 41:15
    67%

    15“Look, I am making you like a sharp threshing sledge, new and double-edged. You will thresh the mountains and crush them; you will make the hills like straw.

  • Deut 22:9-10
    2 verses
    67%

    9Illustrations of the Principle of Purity You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.

    10You must not plow with an ox and a donkey harnessed together.

  • Luke 3:17
    67%

    17His winnowing fork is in his hand to clean out his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire.”

  • Job 21:18
    67%

    18How often are they like straw before the wind, and like chaff swept away by a whirlwind?

  • Job 13:25
    67%

    25Do you wish to torment a windblown leaf and chase after dry chaff?

  • Job 24:6
    66%

    6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • Ps 58:9
    66%

    9Before the kindling is even placed under your pots, he will sweep it away along with both the raw and cooked meat.

  • Lev 2:14
    66%

    14“‘If you present a grain offering of first ripe grain to the LORD, you must present your grain offering of first ripe grain as soft kernels roasted in fire– crushed bits of fresh grain.

  • Prov 27:25
    66%

    25When the hay is removed and new grass appears, and the grass from the hills is gathered in,

  • Mic 6:15
    66%

    15You will plant crops, but will not harvest them; you will squeeze oil from the olives, but you will have no oil to rub on your bodies; you will squeeze juice from the grapes, but you will have no wine to drink.

  • Prov 26:3
    66%

    3A whip for the horse and a bridle for the donkey, and a rod for the backs of fools!

  • Mark 2:23
    66%

    23Lord of the Sabbath Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples began to pick some heads of wheat as they made their way.

  • Prov 20:26
    66%

    26A wise king separates out the wicked; he turns the threshing wheel over them.

  • Isa 37:27
    66%

    27Their residents are powerless; they are terrified and ashamed. They are as short-lived as plants in the field or green vegetation. They are as short-lived as grass on the rooftops when it is scorched by the east wind.

  • Luke 8:5
    66%

    5“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds devoured it.

  • Lam 5:13
    65%

    13The young men perform menial labor; boys stagger from their labor.

  • Isa 27:8
    65%

    8When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.

  • Amos 9:9
    65%

    9“For look, I am giving a command and I will shake the family of Israel together with all the nations. It will resemble a sieve being shaken, when not even a pebble falls to the ground.

  • Deut 28:17
    65%

    17Your basket and your mixing bowl will be cursed.

  • Joel 1:11
    65%

    11Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.

  • Matt 3:12
    65%

    12His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clean out his threshing floor and will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn up with inextinguishable fire!”

  • Isa 28:10
    65%

    10Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.

  • Job 24:24
    65%

    24They are exalted for a little while, and then they are gone, they are brought low like all others, and gathered in, and like a head of grain they are cut off.’