Isaiah 30:24

Likewise the oxen and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat savory provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fork.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

In Context

23And he will give the rain for thy seed, with which thou shall sow the ground, and bread of the increase of the ground, and it shall be fat and plenteous. In that day thy cattle shall feed in large pastures.

25And there shall be upon every lofty mountain, and upon every high hill, brooks [and] streams of waters, in the day of the great slaughter, when the towers fall.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:21Six days thou shall work, but on the seventh day thou shall rest; in plowing time and in harvest thou shall rest.

Deuteronomy 25:4Thou shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out [the grain].

Matthew 3:12Whose winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his threshing floor. And he will gather his wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with unquenchable fire.

1 Corinthians 9:9For it is written in the law of Moses thou shall not muzzle an ox threshing grain. Is God concerned about oxen,

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 30:19-27

Promises. ( b. c. 720.) 18 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not… Read the whole commentary →

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