Isaiah 30:24

The oxen and donkeys that help cultivate the earth will eat good greens and grain, spread with fork and shovel.

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In The King James Version

The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

In Context

23He will send rain when you sow, and the land will produce great harvests. At that time your cattle will feed in rich pastures.

25At that time when your enemies are killed and the fortresses fall, streams of water will flow down every mountain and hill.

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Cross References

Exodus 34:21You shall work for six days, but you shall rest on the seventh day. Even during the times of sowing and harvest you shall rest.

Deuteronomy 25:4Don't muzzle an ox when it is treading out the grain.

Matthew 3:12He has his winnowing tool ready in his hand. He will clean up the threshing floor and gather the wheat into the storehouse, but he will burn the chaff with fire that can't be put out.”

1 Corinthians 9:9In the law of Moses it's written, “Don't muzzle the ox when it's threshing out the grain.” Was God just thinking about oxen?

Matthew Henry on Isaiah 30:19-27

Promises. ( b. c. 720.) 18 And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem: thou shalt weep no more: he will be very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear it, he will answer thee. 20 And though the Lord give you the bread of adversity, and the water of affliction, yet shall not… Read the whole commentary →

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