Isaiah 28:24
22 So now, do not mock, or your shackles will become heavier. Indeed, I have heard from the Lord GOD of Hosts a decree of destruction against the whole land.
23 Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say.
Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
25 When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.
26 For his God instructs and teaches him properly.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
- KJV
- Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
- WEB
- Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
- ASV
- Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he [continually] open and harrow his ground?
- DARBY
- Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he [all day] opening and breaking the clods of his land?
- BLB
- Does the one plowing plow all the day to sow? He opens and harrows his ground.
- ÅB
- Når plogmannen vil så, holder han da alltid på med å pløye, åpne og harve sin jord?
- OTB
- Pløyer bonden kontinuerlig for å plante frø? Snu han kontinuerlig og bryter opp jorden sin?
- B1930
- Når plogmannen vil så, holder han da alltid på med å pløie, åpne og harve sin jord?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Hosea 10:11–12
Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:3
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
Read in context