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Isaiah 41:15
Behold, I will make you into a threshing sledge, new and sharp, with many teeth. You will thresh the mountains and crush them, and reduce the hills to chaff.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — God addresses the fearful remnant of Jacob and Israel, promising to transform them into an instrument of judgment.
The words — The Hebrew לְמוֹרַג (le./mo.Rag) denotes a threshing sledge, while חָדָשׁ (cha.Dash) and חָרוּץ (cha.Rutz) specify that this tool is new and sharp.
The thread — This agricultural metaphor echoes in Micah 4:13 with the promise of iron horns and bronze hooves, while Zechariah 4:7 applies the same crushing imagery to a great mountain becoming a plain.
Why it lands — The text commands the recipient to actively thresh mountains and reduce hills to chaff, requiring reliance on divine empowerment rather than human strength to dismantle formidable opposition.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
Behold, I will make thee a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth: thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.
Cross-references
- Micah 4:13 Rise and thresh, O Daughter of Zion, for I will give you horns of iron and hooves of bronze to break to pieces many peoples. Then you will devote their gain to the LORD, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.
- 2 Corinthians 10:4 The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the flesh. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
- Zechariah 4:7 What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain. Then he will bring forth the capstone accompanied by shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’”
- Habakkuk 3:12 You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
- Isaiah 21:10 O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.
- Isaiah 28:27 Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge, and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin. But caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cumin with a rod.
- Psalms 18:42 I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.