American King James Version
"Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the clods of his ground? "
— Isaiah 28:24, American King James Version
“Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?”
“Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground? ”
“Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?”
“Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?”
“Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?”
“Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?”
“Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?”
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.
Now therefore be you not mockers, lest your bands be made strong: for I have heard from the Lord GOD of hosts a consumption, even determined on the whole earth. ¶
Give you ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.
Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the clods of his ground?
When 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 rye in their place?
For his God does instruct him to discretion, and does teach him.
For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about on the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.