Isaiah 28:24

Doth the plowman plow continually to sow? doth he continually open and break the clods of his ground?

Revised Version 1895

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 ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

25When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the appointed place and the spelt in the border thereof?

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Cross References

Jeremiah 4:3For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, 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 →

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