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Isaiah 28:28

28  Does one crush grain for bread?

No, he does not thresh it forever;6

when he drives his cart wheel over it

with his horses, he does not crush it.

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Isaiah 28:28 — The New International Version (NIV)

28 Grain must be ground to make bread;

so one does not go on threshing it forever.

The wheels of a threshing cart may be rolled over it,

but one does not use horses to grind grain.

Isaiah 28:28 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

28 Bread corn is bruised;

Because he will not ever be threshing it,

Nor break it with the wheel of his cart,

Nor bruise it with his horsemen.

Isaiah 28:28 — New Living Translation (NLT)

28 Grain for bread is easily crushed,

so he doesn’t keep on pounding it.

He threshes it under the wheels of a cart,

but he doesn’t pulverize it.

Isaiah 28:28 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

28 Bread flour must be ground;

Therefore he does not thresh it forever,

Break it with his cartwheel,

Or crush it with his horsemen.

Isaiah 28:28 — New Century Version (NCV)

28 The grain is ground to make bread.

People do not ruin it by crushing it forever.

The farmer separates the wheat from the chaff with his cart,

but he does not let his horses grind it.

Isaiah 28:28 — American Standard Version (ASV)

28 Bread 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.

Isaiah 28:28 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

28 Bread corn is crushed, because he will not ever be threshing it; and if he drove the wheels of his cart and his horses over it, he would not crush it.

Isaiah 28:28 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

28 Grain is ground into flour, but the grinding eventually stops. 

It will be threshed. 

The wheels of his cart will roll over it, 

but his horses won’t crush it. 

Isaiah 28:28 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

28 Bread grain is crushed,

but is not threshed endlessly.

Though the wheel of the farmer’s cart rumbles,

his horses do not crush it.

Isaiah 28:28 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

28 Grain is crushed for bread,

but one does not thresh it forever;

one drives the cart wheel and horses over it,

but does not pulverize it.

Isaiah 28:28 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

28 Grain is crushed fine,

but certainly one does not thresh it forever;

and one drives the wheel of his cart,

but his horses do not crush it.

Isaiah 28:28 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

28 Grain must be ground up to make bread.

A farmer separates it out.

But he doesn’t go on doing it forever.

He drives the wheels of a threshing cart over it.

But he doesn’t let the horses grind it to dust.

Isaiah 28:28 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

28 Grain for bread is crushed,

Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever.

Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it,

He does not thresh it longer.


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