5:28 Their arrows are sharpened,
and all their bows are prepared. 1
The hooves of their horses are hard as flint, 2
and their chariot wheels are like a windstorm. 3
28:28 Grain is crushed,
though one certainly does not thresh it forever.
The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it,
but his horses do not crush it.
28:27 Certainly 4 caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge,
nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. 5
Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick,
and cumin seed with a flail.
1 tn Heb “bent” (so KJV, NAB, NASB, NRSV); NIV “are strung.”
2 tn Heb “regarded like flint.”
3 sn They are like a windstorm in their swift movement and in the way they kick up dust.
4 tn Or “For” (KJV, ASV, NASB).
5 sn Both of these seeds are too small to use the ordinary threshing techniques.