Isaiah 30:28
His breath is like a rushing torrent that rises to the neck. He comes to sift the nations in a sieve of destruction; He bridles the jaws of the peoples to lead them astray.
And his breath, as an overflowing stream, shall reach to the midst of the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of vanity: and there shall be a bridle in the jaws of the people, causing them to err.
His breath is as an overflowing stream that reaches even to the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction. A bridle that leads to ruin will be in the jaws of the peoples.
and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causeth to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- his breath
- Isaiah 11:4; Psalm 18:15; Luke 22:31; 2 Thessalonians 2:8; Hebrews 4:12; Revelation 1:16; Revelation 2:16
- an overflowing
- Isaiah 8:8; Isaiah 28:17, 18; Isaiah 29:6; Habakkuk 3:12–15
- to sift
- Bp. Lowth renders, "to toss the nations with the van of perdition;" that is, says {Kimchi,} nothing useful shall remain behind, but all shall come to nothing and perish. The van of the ancients was a large instrument, somewhat like a shovel, with a long handle, with which they tossed the corn mixed with the chaff and chopped straw into the air, that the wind might separate them.
- Isaiah 19:12, 14; Isaiah 33:10–12; Hosea 13:3; Amos 9:9; Matthew 3:12
- a bridle
- Isaiah 37:29; 2 Kings 19:28; Psalm 32:9; Proverbs 26:3
- causing
- Isaiah 19:3, 13, 14; 2 Samuel 17:14; 1 Kings 22:20–22; Job 39:17; Ezekiel 14:7–9; 2 Thessalonians 2:11