Catholic Public Domain Version
"Would the plowman, after plowing all day so that he may sow, instead cut open and hoe his soil? "
— Isaiah 28:24, Catholic Public Domain 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 will stand, just as at the mountain of divisions. He will be angry, just as in the valley which is in Gibeon, so that he may accomplish his work, his strange work, so that he may complete his work, his work which is foreign even to him.
And now, do not be willing to mock, lest your chains be tightened. For I have heard, from the Lord, the God of hosts, about the consummation and the abridgement concerning the entire earth.
Pay close attention, and listen to my voice! Attend and hear my eloquence!
Would the plowman, after plowing all day so that he may sow, instead cut open and hoe his soil?
Will he not, when he has made the surface level, sow coriander, and scatter cumin, and plant wheat in rows, and barley, and millet, and vetch in their places?
For he will be instructed in judgment; his God will teach him.
For coriander cannot be threshed with a saw, and a cartwheel cannot revolve over cumin. Instead, coriander is shaken out with a stick, and cumin with a staff.