²⁷ Caraway is not threshed^(A) with a sledge,^(B)
    nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin;
caraway is beaten out with a rod,^(C)
    and cumin with a stick.

²⁸ Grain must be ground to make bread;
    so one does not go on threshing it forever.
The wheels of a threshing cart^(A) may be rolled over it,
    but one does not use horses to grind grain.

¹⁵ “See, I will make you into a threshing sledge,^(A)
    new and sharp, with many teeth.
You will thresh the mountains^(B) and crush them,
    and reduce the hills to chaff.^(C)

“Daughter Babylon^(A) is like a threshing floor^(B)
    at the time it is trampled;
    the time to harvest^(C) her will soon come.^(D)”

¹³ “Rise and thresh,^(A) Daughter Zion,
    for I will give you horns of iron;
I will give you hooves of bronze,
    and you will break to pieces many nations.”^(B)
You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the Lord,^(C)
    their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

¹² In wrath you strode through the earth
    and in anger you threshed^(A) the nations.