Isaiah 28:28 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

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 - is threshed with the grain-drag (as contrasted with dill and cummin, 'beaten with the staff'), or 'trodden out' by the hoofs of cattle driven over it on the threshing-floor (Deuteronomy 25:4; Micah 4:13).

Because - or but (Horsley); though the grain is threshed with the heavy threshing instrument, yet "he will not ever" (always) "be" (thus) "threshing it" - rather, "because" refers to what is understood in the previous clause: "Bread grain is bruised," so far as is needful, and no further; because, or for, He will not always be threshing it. Nor break (it with) the wheel - `drive over it continually the wheel.'

Of his cart - threshing-drag.

Nor bruise it (with) his horsemen ( paaraashaayw (H6571): cf. Isaiah 21:7, note) - rather, horses: used to tread out grain (De Dieu).

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.