10. my threshing--that is, my people (the Jews) trodden down by
Babylon.
corn of my floor--Hebrew, "my son of the floor," that is, my
people, treated as corn laid on the floor for threshing; implying, too,
that by affliction, a remnant (grain) would be separated from the
ungodly (chaff) [MAURER].
HORSLEY translates, "O thou object of my
unremitting prophetic pains." See
Isa 28:27, 28.
Some, from
Jer 51:33,
make Babylon the object of the threshing; but Isaiah is plainly
addressing his countrymen, as the next words show, not the
Babylonians.
JFB.
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