Isaiah 41:15 BSB — MannaFest

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.

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ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Behold, I will make thee ... - The object of the illustration in this verse and the following is, to show that God would clothe them with power, and that all difficulties in their way would vanish. To express this idea, the prophet uses an image derived front the mode of threshing in the East, where the heavy wain or sledge was made to pass over a large pile of sheaves, and to bruise out the grain, and separate the chaff, so that the wind would drive it away.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

God will make Israel to destroy their enemies as the Eastern corn-drag (Isa 28:27, 28) bruises out the grain with its teeth, and gives the chaff to the winds to scatter. teeth--serrated, so as to cut up the straw for fodder and separate the grain from the chaff. mountains . . . hills--kingdoms more or less powerful that were hostile to Israel (Isa 2:14).

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
הִנֵּ֣ה	hi.Neh	here!	H2009 →
שַׂמְתִּ֗יךְ	sam.Tikh	I will make you	H7760 →
לְמוֹרַג֙	le.mo.Rag	<into> a threshing-sledge	H4173 →
חָר֣וּץ	cha.Rutz	sharp	H2742 →
חָדָ֔שׁ	cha.Dash	new	H2319 →
בַּ֖עַל	Ba.'al	an owner of	H1167 →
פִּֽיפִיּ֑וֹת	pi.fi.Yot	teeth	H6374 →
תָּד֤וּשׁ	ta.Dush	you will thresh	H1758 →
הָרִים֙	ha.Rim	mountains	H2022 →
וְתָדֹ֔ק	ve.ta.Dok	so you may crush [them]	H1854 →
וּגְבָע֖וֹת	u.ge.va.'ot	and hills	H1389 →
כַּמֹּ֥ץ	ka.Motz	like <the> chaff	H4671 →
תָּשִֽׂים׃	ta.Sim	you will make	H7760 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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!’”
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:25
  “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn…
- Zechariah 4:9
  “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house, and his hands will complete it. Then you will know that the LORD of Hosts has sent me to you.
- Micah 4:1
  In the last days the mountain of the house of the LORD will be established as the chief of the mountains; it will be raised above the hills, and the peoples will stream to…
- Psalms 118:22
  The stone the builders rejected has become the cornerstone.
Through
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.
leads to
- Jeremiah 51:33
  For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “The Daughter of Babylon is like a threshing floor at the time it is trampled. In just a little while her…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- 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,…
Through
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,…
leads to
- Isaiah 41:15–16
  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.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Daniel 2:44
  In the days of those kings, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will it be left to another people. It will shatter all these kingdoms…

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