◄ Isaiah 28:24 ►
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Good News Translation
Farmers don't constantly plow their fields and keep getting them ready for planting.

New Revised Standard Version
Do those who plow for sowing plow continually? Do they continually open and harrow their ground?

Contemporary English Version
Farmers don't just plow and break up the ground.

New American Bible
Is the plowman forever plowing in order to sow, always loosening and harrowing the field?

Douay-Rheims Bible
Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?

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Jeremiah 4:3 For thus saith the Lord to the men of Juda and Jerusalem: Break up anew your fallow ground, and sow not upon thorns:

Hosea 10:11,12 Ephraim is a heifer taught to love to tread out corn, but I passed over upon the beauty of her neck: I will ride upon Ephraim, Juda shall plough, Jacob shall break the furrows for himself. . . .

Context
Listen and Hear
23Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech. 24Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?25Will he not, when he hath made plain the surface thereof, sow gith, and scatter cummin, and put wheat in order, and barley, and millet, and vetches in their bounds?…
Cross References
Isaiah 28:23
Give ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.

Isaiah 28:25
Will he not, when he hath made plain the surface thereof, sow gith, and scatter cummin, and put wheat in order, and barley, and millet, and vetches in their bounds?

Isaiah 28:23
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