Isaiah 28:24
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.
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.
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
And 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.
Read in contextJeremiah 4:3
For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Read in context