Bread-corn is bruised] Or, Nor is bread-corn bruised. the negative is to be supplied from the sentence before-going, vers. 27. as Gen. 2. 5, 6. Job 23:17. Psalms 9:19. Chap. 41. 28. else the latter part of the verse should contradict the former. Neither are those tenderer seeds threshed out with such instruments as the harder grain is: vers. 27. nor yet is the harder grain so beaten out with these instruments that are used about it, as to maul it to pieces and to spoil it: nor doth God so deal with his people, though more refractarie, in chastising them, as utterly to destroy them, Jeremiah 30:11. bread-corn] Heb. bread. put for corn. Psalms 104:15. Ecclesiastes 11:1. as corn for bread. Lamentations 2:12. bruised] Heb. ground. Exodus 32:20. Deuteronomy 9:21. because] Or, for. as vers. 26. 27. he will not ever be threshing it] Nor will God alwaies be punishing, Psalms 103:9. Chap. 57. 16. Lamentations 3:31-32. be threshing] Heb. threshing thresh. nor break it with the wheel of his cart] He will not so long continue threshing untill he break and bruise it to powder: as Chap. 41. 15. Mic. 4. 14. cart] Or, sled: which they used to draw over their corn, to beat out the grain, Chap. 41. 15. to which purpose also they used oxen, Deuteronomy 25:4. bruise] Heb. grind. his horsemen] Those that guide the sled, which the horses draw: or, the hooves of the cattle used about it, Mic. 4. 14. or, as some, the iron teeth of the wheels, Chap. 41. 15. Amos 1:3.