Isaiah 41:15

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

“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.”

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BSBPD

“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 · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“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.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Behold, I have made thee to be a new sharp threshing instrument having teeth; thou shalt thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and shalt make the hills as chaff.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Lo, I have set thee for a new sharp threshing instrument, Possessing teeth, thou threshest mountains, And beatest small, and hills as chaff thou makest.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Isaiah 41:15 — 10 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Joshua 17:18because the hill country will be yours as well. It is a forest; clear it, and its farthest limits will be yours. Although the Canaanites have iron chariots and although they are strong, you can drive them out.”
  2. Judges 6:16“Surely I will be with you,” the LORD replied, “and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man.”
  3. Job 41:30His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.
  4. Psalms 18:42I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
  5. Isaiah 21:10O my people, crushed on the threshing floor, I tell you what I have heard from the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel.
  6. Isaiah 28:27Surely 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.
  7. Micah 4:13Rise 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.
  8. Habakkuk 3:12You marched across the earth with fury; You threshed the nations in wrath.
  9. Zechariah 4:7What 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!’”
  10. 2 Corinthians 10:4The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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