Isaiah 28:24
Will the plowman plow all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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
23Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:3For thus saith the Lord to the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Break up fresh ground for yourselves, and sow not among 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 →