Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and the donkeys, who plow the ground, will eat seasoned feed 1 that has been winnowed with a shovel and a fork. 1

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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

23He will give the rain for your seed when you sow the ground, 1 and bread with abundance from the ground, and the crops will be abundant. 1 In that day your cattle will graze in broad pastures. 1

25On every high mountain and on every high hill, there will be flowing brooks and streams of waters, 1 in the day of the great slaughter when the towers fall. 1

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Cross References

Exodus 34:21You may work for six days, but on the seventh day you must rest. Even at plowing time and in harvest, you must rest.

Deuteronomy 25:4You must not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

Matthew 3:12His winnowing fork is in his hand to thoroughly clear off his threshing floor and to gather his wheat into the storehouse. But he will burn up the chaff with fire that can never be put out.”

1 Corinthians 9:9For it is written in the law of Moses, “Do not put a muzzle on an ox when it is treading out the grain.” Is it really the oxen that God cares about?

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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