Isaiah 28:24

Does a farmer who plows all day to sow, only plow the ground? Does he continually break up and harrow the field? 1

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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

23Pay attention and listen to my voice; be attentive and listen to my words. 1

25When he has prepared the ground, does he not scatter caraway seed, sow the cumin, 1 put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the right place, and the spelt at its edges? + 28:25 The identification of some of these spices is in doubt, so versions have a variety of translations. In addition, some versions give different interpretations to the expressions translated here as in rows and in the right place , because these expressions are uncertain in Hebrew. 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 4:3For Yahweh says this to each person in Judah and Jerusalem: 1 'Plow your own ground, 1 and do not sow 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 →

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