Isaiah 28:24
Does the farmer spend all his time plowing? Does he spend all his time preparing the soil?
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
In Context
23Listen to what I'm saying! Listen and pay attention! Hear what I have to say!
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:3This is what the Lord is saying to the people of Judah and Jerusalem: Plow your unplowed ground, and don't sow among the thorns.
Matthew Henry on Isaiah 28:24-29
Husbandry a Divine Art. ( b. c. 725.) 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,… Read the whole commentary →