Isaiah 28:26

King James Version

For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

Parallel Translations

Complete Jewish Bible
because his God has taught him this, has given him instruction.

Darby Translation
His God doth instruct him in [his] judgment, he doth teach him.

Easy-to-Read Version
Our God is using this to teach you a lesson. This example shows us that God is fair when he punishes his people.

Hebrew Names Version
For his God does instruct him aright, [and] does teach him.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
For He doth instruct him aright; his God doth teach him.

American Standard Version
For his God doth instruct him aright, and doth teach him.

Bible in Basic English
For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
God wyll instruct hym to haue discretion, euen his God wyll teache hym.

Geneva Bible (1587)
For his God doeth instruct him to haue discretion, and doeth teach him.

George Lamsa Translation
For his God does instruct him to discretion, and does teach him.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
So thou shalt be chastened by the judgement of thy God, and shalt rejoice.

English Revised Version
For his God doth instruct him aright, and doth teach him.

The Holy Bible, Berean Study Bible
For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

Amplified Bible
For his God instructs [him correctly] and teaches him properly.

World English Bible
For his God does instruct him aright, [and] does teach him.

Contemporary English Version
They learn this from their God.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Yea One hath trained him to good judgment, His God, directeth him.

Good News Translation
They know how to do their work, because God has taught them.

King James Version (1611)
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

New International Version (1984)
His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.

New Century Version
His God teaches him and shows him the right way.

New English Translation
His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.

New International Version
His God instructs him and teaches him the right way.

New American Standard Bible
For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

New King James Version
For He instructs him in right judgment, His God teaches him.

New Living Translation
The farmer knows just what to do, for God has given him understanding.

Lexham English Bible
And his God instructs him about the prescription; he teaches him.

Literal Translation
And He instructs him for the right; his God teaches him.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
And yt he maye do it right, his God teacheth him and sheweth him.

Update Bible Version
For his God instructs him aright, [and] teaches him.

Webster's Bible Translation
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he will instruct him in judgment: his God will teach him.

Revised Standard Version
For he is instructed aright; his God teaches him.

New Life Bible
For his God tells him what to do and teaches him the right way.

New Revised Standard
For they are well instructed; their God teaches them.

Christian Standard Bible®
His God teaches him order; He instructs him.

English Standard Version
For he is rightly instructed; his God teaches him.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
And his God schal teche hym, in doom he schal teche hym.

Young's Literal Translation
And instruct him for judgment doth his God, He doth direct him.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

Contextual Overview

²³ Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech. ²⁴ Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground? ²⁵ When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place? ²⁶ For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him. ²⁷ For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod. ²⁸ Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen. ²⁹ This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.

Bible Verse Review
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For his God: etc. or, And he bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him, Exodus 28:3, Exodus 31:3-6, Exodus 36:2, Job 35:11, Job 39:17, Psalms 144:1, Daniel 1:17, James 1:17

Reciprocal: Genesis 32:7 - and he Genesis 32:16 - space Exodus 35:30 - See Exodus 35:31 - And he Exodus 35:35 - he filled 1 Kings 7:14 - he was filled 2 Chronicles 2:7 - cunning Nehemiah 7:5 - put into mine Job 38:36 - who hath given Psalms 94:10 - teacheth man Proverbs 8:12 - knowledge Acts 6:3 - full 2 Timothy 2:7 - and

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For his God doth instruct him to discretion, [and] doth teach him. God gives the husbandman instruction and discretion how to sow his seed, at what time, and in a proper place; for this refers to what goes before; though some think a new act is here intended, namely, threshing or beating out of corn, rendering the words, "and he" (the husbandman) "beateth it out, according to the discretion", or "judgment, his God teaches him" h; which is expressed in general terms here, and is next particularly insisted on in the following verses Isaiah 28:27.

h "Excutit illud ad eam rationem, [quam] Deus, ipsius docet eum", Piscator, Gataker; "vel colligat", &c. Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For his God doth instruct him ... - Margin, ‘He bindeth it in such sort as his God doth teach him.’ The more correct idea is conveyed in the text. The word יסרו yis^erô, properly means, he instructs, admonishes, or teaches him. The idea that skill in agriculture is communicated by God is not one that is discordant to reason, or to the general teachings of the Bible. Thus the achitectural and mechanical skill of Bezaleel and Aholiab, by which they were enabled to make the tabernacle, is said expressly to have been imparted to them by God Exodus 31:2-6. Thus also Noah was taught how to build the ark Genesis 6:14-16. We are not, indeed, to suppose that the farmer is inspired; or that God communicates to him by special revelation where, and when, and how he shall sow his grain, but the sense is, that God is the author of all his skill. He has endowed him with understanding, and taught him by his providence. It is by the study of what God teaches in the seasons, in the soil, in the results of experience and observation, that he has this art. He teaches him also by the example, the counsel, and even by the failures of others; and all the knowledge of agriculture that he has is to be traced up to God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Isaiah 28:26. For his God doth instruct him — All nations have agreed in attributing agriculture, the most useful and the most necessary of all sciences, to the invention and to the suggestions of their deities. "The Most High hath ordained husbandry," saith the son of Sirach, Ecclus. 7:15.

Namque Ceres fertur fruges, Liberque liquoris

Vitigeni laticem mortalibus instituisse.

LUCRETIUS, v. 14.

"Ceres has taught mortals how to produce fruits; and Bacchus has taught them how to cultivate the vine."

Ὁ δ' ηπιος ανθρωποισι

Δεξια σημαινει, λαους δ' επι εργον εγειρει

Μιμνησκων βιοτοιο· λεγει δ' ὁτε βωλος αριστη

Βουσι τε και μακελῃσι· λεγει δ' ὁτε δεξιαι ὡραι

Και φυτα γυρωσαι, και σπερματα παντα βαλεσθαι.

ARATUS, Phaenom. v.

"He, Jupiter, to the human race

Indulgent, prompts to necessary toil

Man provident of life; with kindly signs

The seasons marks, when best to turn the glebe

With spade and plough, to nurse the tender plant,

And cast o'er fostering earth the seeds abroad."