Isaiah 21:10

Modern

O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.

Traditional

O 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.

Literal

O my threshing, and the son of my threshing floor, that which I have heard from YHWH of Hosts, the God of Israel, I have declared to you!

Latin

Tritura mea et filii areæ meæ, quæ audivi a Domino exercituum, Deo Israël, annuntiavi vobis.

Hebrew

English

O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.

O my people: The focus returned to the people of Judah.
The Babylonians would oppress (thresh and winnow) Judah, but Babylon would also fall.
I tell you what I have heard: The prophet faithfully reported what the Lord revealed to him.

Theme notes and profiles

Jeremiah 51:33
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her harvest time will come.”
Micah 4:13
Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
Isaiah 41:15–16
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.
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in His hand to clear His threshing floor and to gather His wheat into the barn; but He will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.”
2 Kings 13:7
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.
Ezekiel 3:17–19
“Son of man, I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel. Whenever you hear a word from My mouth, give them a warning from Me.
Habakkuk 3:12
You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
Acts 20:26–27
Therefore I testify to you this day that I am innocent of the blood of all men.
1 Kings 22:14
But Micaiah said, “As surely as the LORD lives, I will speak whatever the LORD tells me.”

Israel: Patriarch, son of Isaac, father of twelve tribes LORD: Names or title used to refer to God