Devine Scripture

Isaiah 28:27

Isaiah chapter 28 · verse 27 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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.

Context

v.26For his God doth instruct him aright, and doth teach him.

v.27This passage

v.28Bread grain is ground; for he will not be always threshing it: and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he doth not grind it.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 46:28

    Fear not thou, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah; for I am with thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee; but I will not make a full end of thee, but I will correct thee in measure, and will in no wise leave thee unpunished.

  • Jeremiah 10:24

    O Jehovah, correct me, but in measure; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.

  • Amos 1:3

    Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Damascus, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron.

  • Isaiah 41:15

    Behold, I have made thee to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.

  • 2 Kings 13:7

    For he left not to Jehoahaz of the people save fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria destroyed them, and made them like the dust in threshing.

  • Isaiah 27:7

    Hath he smitten them as he smote those that smote them? or are they slain according to the slaughter of them that were slain by them?