KJV ORIGINAL
O my threshing, and the corn of my floor: that which I have heard of the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, have I declared unto you.
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✦ MADE SIMPLE
O my people who have been beaten down like grain on the threshing floor: what I have heard from the LORD of armies, the God of Israel, I have told you.
⚡ THE BOTTOM LINE
The prophet is telling his suffering people that he has faithfully delivered God's message to them, comparing their hardships to grain being processed on a threshing floor.
📚 Historical Context
Isaiah is speaking to the people of Judah during a time of great political turmoil, likely around 701 BC when various nations were falling to Assyrian conquest. The metaphor of threshing refers to the process of separating grain from chaff by beating it, symbolizing how God's people were being refined through suffering and judgment.
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