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Related OET-RV ISA 28 V23 V24 V25 V26 V27 V28 V29

OET-RV by cross-referenced section ISA 28:23

⌂ ← ISA 28:23–28:29 → ║ ═ ©

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The wisdom of God

Isa 28:23–29

28:23 The wisdom of God

23 Listen carefully to what I say.

≈ Pay attention to my words.

24 Does a farmer spend all day ploughing and not sow anything?

≈ Does he just continue to break up and harrow his land?

25 Doesn’t he level its surface and scatter fennel and sow cumin,

≈ and put the wheat in rows and the barley in plots, and spelt around the border?

26 Yes, his god instructs him,

≈ he teaches him to make good decisions.

27 Fennel isn’t threshed with a threshing board,

≈ nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin,

but rather, fennel is beaten with a stick,

≈ and cumin with a rod.

28 Grain for bread must be ground because anyone threshing it doesn’t keep at it forever.

He can run his cart wheel over it and his horses don’t crush it.

29 That too comes from Commander-in-chief Yahweh

who gives good advice—he has great wisdom.

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23 Give _ear and_hear my_sound/voice pay _attention and_hear my_speech/discourse.

24 All _of the_day the_plowman does _he _plow to_sow does _he _loosen and_does _he _harrow land _of_his.

25 Am_not if he _has _levelled surface _of_its and_does _he _scatter black _cumin and_cumin does _he _sprinkle and_does _he _put wheat a _row and_barley an _appointed_place and_spelt border _of_its.

26 And_he_instructs _him to_judgement his/its_god he_teaches _him.

27 If/because not with _(the)_sledge black _cumin it _is _threshed and_a _wheel _of a _cart over cumin it _is _turned if/because with_staff black _cumin it _is _beaten _out and_cumin with_rod.

28 bread it _is _crushed if/because not to_perpetuity continually _(thresh) anyone_threshes _it and_he _sets _in _motion the _wheel _of his _cart _of_his and_horses _of_his not he_crushes _it.

29 Also this from_with YHWH soldiers/messengers it _has _gone _out he _has _made _wonderful counsel he _has _made _great sound _wisdom.