Isaiah 21:10

My people in Judah, the army of Babylon has caused you to suffer greatly as though [MET] you were grain that was threshed and ◄winnowed/thrown up into the air for the wind to blow away the chaff►. But now I have told you what the Commander of the armies of angels the God whom we Israelis worship, told me about Babylon.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.

In Context

9Now, I saw a man riding in a chariot pulled by two horses. I called out to him, and he answered/shouted, ‘Babylon has been destroyed! All the idols in Babylon lie in pieces on the ground!’”

11I received this message from Yahweh about Edom: Someone from Edom has been calling/shouting to me saying, “Watchman, how long will it be before the night is ended? [DOU]”

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Cross References

1 Kings 22:14But Micaiah replied, “As surely as Yahweh lives, I will tell him only what Yahweh tells me to say.”

Isaiah 28:28And grain for baking bread is crushed easily, so the farmers do not continue to pound it for a long time. They sometimes cause their horses to pull a cart over it to thresh it, but doing that does not grind the grain.

Jeremiah 23:28Allow those false prophets to tell people their dreams, but those who have messages that really come from me should proclaim those messages faithfully. I, Yahweh, say that like straw and grain are certainly very different, my messages and the messages from those false prophets are certainly very different.

Ezekiel 3:17“You human, I am appointing you to be like a watchman [MET] for the Israeli people [MTY]. So listen to these messages that I will give you, and tell them those messages to warn them.

Micah 4:13So, you people of Jerusalem, rise up and punish [MET] the nations who oppose you. I will cause you to be very strong, as if [MET] you had horns made of iron, as if [MET] you had hoofs made of bronze; and you will crush many nations. And then you will take from your enemies the valuable things that they have taken from other countries, and you will dedicate those things to me, the one who is the Lord of all the people on the earth.”

Matthew 3:12He is like a farmer who wants to clear away the grain that is on the ground where it has been threshed { they have threshed it}. That farmer uses a huge fork to throw the grain into the air to separate the wheat from the chaff [MET], and then he cleans up the threshing area. Similarly, God will separate righteous people from the evil people like a farmer who gathers the wheat into his storage area, and then God will burn the people who are like chaff with a fire that will never be put out [MET].”

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 21:2-11

The Doom of Babylon. ( b. c. 714.) 1 The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land. 2 A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease. 3 Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was… Read the whole commentary →

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