KJV King James Version
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
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Isaiah 28:24
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
WEB World English Bible
Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
ASV American Standard Version
Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!
Surrounding context — Isaiah 28
21 For the LORD shall rise up as [in] mount Perazim, he shall be wroth as [in] the valley of Gibeon, that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act.
22 Now therefore be ye not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined upon the whole earth.
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, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
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Jeremiah 4:3For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.Hosea 10:11-12And Ephraim [is as] an heifer [that is] taught, [and] loveth to tread out [the corn]; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, [and] Jacob shall break his clods.
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