Isaiah 28:24

All day long, doth the plowman plow for sowing? Doth he continue laying open and harrowing his soil?

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 ye my voice,—Hearken, and hear ye my speech:—

25Doth he not when he hath levelled the face thereof, Cast abroad the fennel? And, the cummin, doth he not scatter? And plant wheat in rows, And barley in a lot, And spelt in the border thereof?

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Cross References

Jeremiah 4:3For thus saith Yahweh Unto the men of Judah and unto Jerusalem, Till ye the untilled ground,—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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