Isaiah 28:27 “Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart…”

Isaiah 28:27

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.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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.

World English Bible

For the dill isn’t 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.

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.

Geneva Bible 1599

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.

Darby Translation

For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but dill is beaten out with a staff, and cummin with a rod.

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.

Bible in Basic English

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.

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Cross references

“threshed”

Isaiah 41:15 2 Kings 13:7 Amos 1:3

Isaiah 41:15 · BSB

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.

2 Kings 13:7 · BSB

Jehoahaz had no army left, except fifty horsemen, ten chariots, and ten thousand foot soldiers, because the king of Aram had destroyed them and made them like the dust at threshing.

Amos 1:3 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Damascus, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because they threshed Gilead with sledges of iron.

“the fitches”

Jeremiah 10:24 Jeremiah 46:28 Isaiah 27:7 Isaiah 27:8

Jeremiah 10:24 · BSB

Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice— not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.

Jeremiah 46:28 · BSB

And you, My servant Jacob, do not be afraid, declares the LORD, for I am with you. Though I will completely destroy all the nations to which I have banished you, I will not completely destroy you. Yet I will discipline y…

Isaiah 27:7 · BSB

Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?

Isaiah 27:8 · BSB

By warfare and exile You contended with her and removed her with a fierce wind, as on the day the east wind blows.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

26For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

28Grain 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.

Read Isaiah 28