Isaiah 28:24

Does the plowman plow the whole day to sow? He opens and harrows his ground!

Literal Standard 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

23Give ear, and hear my voice, || Attend, and hear my saying:

25Has he not, if he has made its face level, || Then scattered fitches, and sprinkles cumin, || And has placed the principal wheat, || And the appointed barley, || And the rye [in] its own border?

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Cross References

Jeremiah 4:3For thus said YHWH, || To the man of Judah, and to Jerusalem: “Till for yourselves tillage, || And do not sow to 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 →

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