Isaiah 28:24

Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the clods of his ground?

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

In Context

23Give all of you ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

25When he has made plain the face thereof, does he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the spelt in their place?

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Cross References

Jeremiah 4:3For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and 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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