Isaiah 41:15

Translations

Modern

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.

Traditional

Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

Literal

Behold, I am making you sharp, into a new threshing sledge, an owner of teeth; and you will thresh the mountains and crush them, and you will make the hills like chaff.

Latin

Ego posui te quasi plaustrum triturans novum, habens rostra serrantia; triturabis montes, et comminues, et colles quasi pulverem pones.

Original

Hebrew

English

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.

Notes

Isaiah 41:8–16

These two prophecies about salvation for God's servant Israel (Isaiah 41:8–13, 14–16) prepare for the first of the suffering servant songs (see study note on Isaiah 42:1–4).

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Isaiah God’s Servant Salvation in Isaiah

Events

Prophecies of Isaiah

Related verses

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.
2 Corinthians 10:4–5
The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
Zechariah 4:7
What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”
Habakkuk 3:12
You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
Isaiah 21:10
O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.
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.
Psalm 18:42
I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

Glossary

Agriculture Book of Baruch Isaiah, Book of New Creation, New Creature Ransom

Topics

Agency in Executing Judgments Agriculture or Farming: Implements of The Teethed Threshing Instrument Mountains: (Threshing of) Heavy Judgments Threshing of the Church in Her Conquests Threshing was Performed by Instruments with Teeth Threshing: (An Instrument For, with Teeth) of the Church Overcoming Threshing: (Dust Made By) of Complete Destruction

Isaiah 41:15

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