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Isaiah 28:28

Bread-corn is bruised, rather, "Is the bread-corn bruised?" Would a farmer be foolish enough to continue the process of threshing until the grain is crushed? The answer implied is, No; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen, as the horses trod out the grain from the husks.

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See also Isaiah 28:28 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Isaiah 28:28. _THE BREAD-CORN_] I read ולהם _velahem_, on the authority of the _Vulgate_ and _Symmachus_; the former expresses the conjunction ו _vau_, omitted in the text, by _autem_; the latte...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    BREAD CORN - Hebrew, לחם _lechem_ - ‘Bread.’ But the word evidently denotes the material from which bread is made. The word is used in the same sense in Isaiah 30:23. IS BRUISED - That is, is more sev...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    3. THE SIX WOES OF THE PROPHET, JUDGMENT RUINS AND RESTORATION GLORIES TO COME (28-35) CHAPTER 28 The First Woe and the Message of Assurance 1. _Ephraim addressed (Isaiah 28:1)_ 2. _Jerusalem equall...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    THE HUSBANDMAN ADAPTS HIS METHODS TO THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF EACH CASE. This parable may perhaps not have been spoken to the same audience as Isaiah 28:7, but there is no valid reason for denying it to I...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    BREAD. Corn. Bread is put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Effect), for the corn of which it is made. Compare Job 28:5. BRUISED. crushed: i.e. reduced to powder. Compare Exodus 32:20; 2 Kings 23:6....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A parable derived from husbandry. The motive of its insertion in this place was probably the different treatment meted out to Samaria and to Jerusalem. The precise point of the analogy is somewhat unc...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Threshing is not bruising. Three methods of threshing are alluded to. (_a_) Beating with a rod or flail (cf. Judges 6:11; Ruth 2:17). (_b_) Treading with the feet of cattle (Deuteronomy 25:4;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Transl. IS BREAD ( CORN) CRUSHED? NAY, HE DOES NOT KEEP THRESHING IT PERPETUALLY, &c. If the text be right, the sentence continues "and rolling his wagon-wheels and horses over it, &c." But the mentio...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    GIVE YE EAR, &C.— We have here the fourth member of this section, in which this severe judgment of God denounced in the preceding verses, is defended by a parable taken from agriculture, wherein the p...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    2. STABILITY TEXT: Isaiah 28:14-29 14 Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem: 15 Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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. BREAD CORN - grain from which bread is made. BRUISED - i...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    This chapter must be assigned (Isaiah 28:1) to a date prior to the capture of Samaria by the Assyrians (722 b.c.) and fall of the northern kingdom. 1-6. Samaria's luxury and self-indulgence pave the...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    'Is bread _corn_ crushed? Nay, he.. and though the wheel of his cart and his horses scatter it, he doth not grind it.'...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    The second parable is about the way that the farmer harvests. God has taught him what to do with each of the various crops. • In a similar way, God teaches his people the best way to carry out their...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    ISAIAH: GOD CONTROLS THE NATIONS GOD CONTROLS THE FUTURE ISAIAH CHAPTER S 21 TO 30 _NORMAN HILLYER_ CHAPTER 28 The next section of the Book of Isaiah is from Chapter 28 to Chapter 33. These Cha...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    BREAD CORN IS BRUISED. — Better, as a question, _Is bread corn crushed to pieces?_ As the poor and meek of the earth were as the fennel and the cummin, so Israel, in its national greatness, was as the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לֶ֣חֶם יוּדָ֔ק כִּ֛י לֹ֥א לָ נֶ֖צַח אָדֹ֣ושׁ

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    BOOK 3 PROPHECIES FROM THE ACCESSION OF HEZEKIAH TO THE DEATH OF SARGON 727-705 B.C. THE prophecies with which we have been engaged (Chapter s 2-10:4) fall either before or during the great Assyrian...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    TRUTH THE ONLY REFUGE Isaiah 28:14-29 In the beginning of Hezekiah's reign the Jewish leaders had made an alliance with Assyria, on whom they relied to protect them against any and all foes. But the...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    Here begins the third and last circle of the first division of the book. It consists of a series of prophecies concerning the chosen people and the world. In this chapter we have a graphic revelation...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _But. Septuagint, "it shall be eaten with bread. For I will not be angry with you for ever, nor shall the sounds of my bitter wrath trample upon you." (Haydock)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    The chapter ends very graciously, in showing the Church, under the similitude of the husbandman, how the Lord takes care of his household. And as Jesus hath sweetly set forth the same blessed truths,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 28 sets before us the first elements of these final scenes in the history of this wonderful people. The scourge comes from the north. Ephraim is invaded as by an overflowing torrent, by a temp...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    BREAD [CORN] IS BRUISED,.... The corn which bread is made of is bruised and ground in a mill: BECAUSE HE WILL NOT ALWAYS BE THRESHING IT; for there is another way of bringing it to flour, that so it...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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. Ver. 28. _Bread corn is bruised._] Yet not mauled or m...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    “Four methods of thrashing are here mentioned, by different instruments: the _flail_, the _drag_, the _wain_, and the _treading of cattle._ The _staff_, or _flail_, was used for the grain that was too...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    23-29 The husbandman applies to his calling with pains and prudence, in all the works of it according to their nature. Thus the Lord, who has given men this wisdom, is wonderful in counsel, and excel...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    BREAD CORN IS BRUISED with a threshing instrument, by comparing this with the foregoing verse and the following words. BECAUSE; or rather, _but_, or _nevertheless_, as the word is frequently used. The...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Isaiah 28:28 Bread H3899 ground H1854 (H8714) thresh H156 (H8800) H1758 (H8799) forever H5331 Break...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PARABLE OF THE FARMER AND HIS CROPS (ISAIAH 28:23). The point behind this parable is that the wise farmer thinks carefully about what he is doing and does not get bogged down in one activity. He l...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Woe of Ephriam due to drunkenness. Prediction of Assyrian captivity of Ephriam. Ephriam's fate a warning to Judah. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: The glorious beauty and the plenty of the lan...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Isaiah 28:1. _The crown of pride._ Sebaste, the ancient Samaria, is situated on a long mount of an oval figure, having first a fruitful valley, and then a circle of hills running round about it. _Maun...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For his God doth instruct him_ CHASTISING WITH JUDGMENT More literally and with better significance, “And he chastiseth it with judgment; his God doth instruct him. ” This judgment is shown in two...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _The ploughman_ THE PARABLE OF THE PLOUGHMAN AND THE THRESHER 1. The general drift of the parable is obvious. The husbandman does not forever vex and wound the tender bosom of the earth with the kee...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    ISAIAH—NOTE ON ISAIAH 28:23 God’s dealings with his people, though “strange” (v. Isaiah 28:21), are wise. He can be trusted in everything....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    SECTION VII. RENEWED DENUNCIATIONS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH (CH. 28-31.) EXPOSITION ISAIAH 28:1 A WARNING TO SAMARIA. The prophet has now east his eagle glance

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Chapter 28. Now the prophet turns to the local present issues. He is now... he's gone off down the road to the end of things. Now he comes back and he begins to speak of the Northern Kingdom, the majo...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Corinthians 3:9; 1 Corinthians 9:10; 1 Corinthians 9:9; Amos 9:9;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Bruised — With a threshing instrument. Break it — Understand, forever. Horses — This was another way of threshing out the corn, by driving horses, or other cattle, over the sheaves to tread it....

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