He will be angry as in the Valley of bGibeon—
That He may do His work, cHis awesome work,
And bring to pass His act, His1 unusual act.
Lest your bonds be ma1de strong;
For I have heard from the Lord God of hosts,
aA destruction determined even upon the whole earth.
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Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
Does he not sow the black cummin
And scatter the cummin,
Plant the wheat in rows,
The barley in the appointed place,
And the1 spelt in its place?
Nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cummin;
But the black cummin is beaten out with a stick,
And the cummin with a rod.
| << Isaiah 28:22 | Isaiah 28:24 >> |
Isaiah 28:23
Calling attention to the following illustration from husbandry (Psalms 49:1-2). As the husbandman does his different kinds of work, each in its right time and due proportion, so God adapts His measures to the varying exigencies of the several cases: now mercy, now judgments; now punishing sooner, now later (an answer to the scoff that His judgments, being put off so long, would never come at all, Isaiah 5:19); His object being not to destroy His people any more than the farmer's object in threshing is to destroy his crop; this vindicates God's "strange work" (Isaiah 28:21) in punishing His people. Compare the same image, Jeremiah 24:6; Hosea 2:23; Matthew 3:12.
| << Isaiah 28:22 | Isaiah 28:24 >> |
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