Isaiah 28:28 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Bible Comments

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. Render, as. question: Is corn crushed? because. nay. The Hebrew accent t ebir is disjunctive and requires this rendering. Compare Revised Version margin, and Job 22:2.

ever. for ever.

Isaiah 28:28

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.