41:15 “Look, I am making you like 1 a sharp threshing sledge,
new and double-edged. 2
You will thresh the mountains and crush them;
you will make the hills like straw. 3
41:16 You will winnow them and the wind will blow them away;
the wind will scatter them.
You will rejoice in the Lord;
you will boast in the Holy One of Israel.
4:13 “Get up and thresh, Daughter Zion!
For I will give you iron horns; 4
I will give you bronze hooves,
and you will crush many nations.” 5
You will devote to the Lord the spoils you take from them,
and dedicate their wealth to the sovereign Ruler 6 of the whole earth. 7
1 tn Heb “into” (so NIV); ASV “have made thee to be.”
2 tn Heb “owner of two-mouths,” i.e., double-edged.
3 sn The mountains and hills symbolize hostile nations that are obstacles to Israel’s restoration.
4 tn Heb “I will make your horn iron.”
5 sn Jerusalem (Daughter Zion at the beginning of the verse; cf. 4:8) is here compared to a powerful ox which crushes the grain on the threshing floor with its hooves.
6 tn Or “the Lord” (so many English versions); Heb “the master.”
7 tn Heb “and their wealth to the master of all the earth.” The verb “devote” does double duty in the parallelism and is supplied in the second line for clarification.
sn In vv. 11-13 the prophet jumps from the present crisis (which will result in exile, v. 10) to a time beyond the restoration of the exiles when God will protect his city from invaders. The