Isaiah 28:27

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

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.

Literal

For caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But with the staff caraway is beaten out, and the cummin with the rod.

Latin

Non enim in serris triturabitur gith, nec rota plaustri super cyminum circuibit; sed in virga excutietur gith, et cyminum in baculo.

Original

Hebrew

English

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.

Notes

Isaiah 28:27–28

The Lord uses different tools, such as a heavy sledge or a light stick, to achieve his goals. There are different levels of judgment.

Isaiah 28:24–29

A farmer knows that there are right and wrong ways to do things, but the leaders of Judah were not that intelligent.

Isaiah 28:1–29

The glory of Samaria, capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, is here contrasted with the glory of the Lord. This section represents the first of the six woes (Woe to...).

Theme notes and profiles

Isaiah Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiahc. 759 BC

Related verses

Isaiah 41:15
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.
Isaiah 27:7–8
Has the LORD struck Israel as He struck her oppressors? Was she killed like those who slayed her?
Jeremiah 10:24
Correct me, O LORD, but only with justice—not in Your anger, or You will bring me to nothing.
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.
Amos 1:3
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.
Jeremiah 46:28
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 you justly, and will by no means leave you unpunished.”

Glossary

Agriculture Black Cumin, Black Caraway, Nutmeg Flower Bread Cummin Fitch Isaiah, Book of

Topics

Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Cart Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Flail Agriculture: Facts About Cart: General Scriptures Concerning Cummin: A Plant Bearing a Small Aromatic Seed Fitch: General Scriptures Concerning Herbs: Cummin Herbs: Fitches Judgment: According to Opportunity and Works Parables of the Husbandman Threshing was Performed by a Rod or Staff Threshing was Performed by Cart Wheels Threshing with Instruments with a Cart Wheel Wisdom: Worldly

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