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Isaiah 28:24
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Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?
Does he who plows to sow plow continually? does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?
Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and break up his ground?
A farmer does not plow his field all the time; he does not go on working the soil.
Does the farmer plow all day to plant seed? Does he continually dig furrows and harrow his ground [after it is prepared]?
Does he who plows to sow plow continually? does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?
Doeth the plowe man plowe all the day, to sowe? doeth he open, and breake the clots of his ground?
Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed?Does he continually turn and harrow his ground?
Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
Farmers don't just plow and break up the ground.
Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he [all day] opening and breaking the clods of his land?
Does a farmer plow his field all the time? No, he doesn't work the soil all the time.
Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and harrow his ground?
Farmers don't constantly plow their fields and keep getting them ready for planting.
Is it all day that the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?
Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and break the clods of his ground?
Goeth not the husbonde man euer in due season earnestly to his londe? he moweth & ploweth his grounde to sowe.
Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?
Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?
Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground?
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and breake the clods of his ground?
Doth not the husbandman plowe all the day, and openeth and breaketh the clottes of his grounde, that he may sowe?
Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?
Doth the plowman plow continually to sow? doth he continually open and break the clods of his ground?
Whether he that erith, schal ere al dai, for to sowe, and schal be kerue, and purge his londe?
Does he that plows to sow plow continually? does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?
Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
Does a farmer always plow and never sow? Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting?
Does the farmer plow all the time to plant seed? Does he keep on turning and digging up the ground?
Do those who plow for sowing plow continually? Do they continually open and harrow their ground?
All day long, doth the plowman plow for sowing? Doth he continue laying open and harrowing his soil?
Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?
Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? does he continually open and harrow his ground?
The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!
Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
break: Jeremiah 4:3, Hosea 10:11, Hosea 10:12
Reciprocal: Genesis 9:20 - an husbandman Genesis 47:23 - here is seed Exodus 28:3 - wise hearted Exodus 31:3 - the spirit of God Exodus 35:34 - Aholiab Mark 4:26 - as 1 Corinthians 3:9 - ye are God's 2 Timothy 2:6 - husbandman
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow?.... Or, "every day"; he ploughs in order to sow; by ploughing he prepares the ground for sowing, that is his end in ploughing; and he may plough a whole day together when he is at it, but he does not plough every day in the year; he has other work to do besides ploughing, as is later mentioned; such as breaking of clods, sowing seed, and threshing the grain after it is ripe, and reaped, and gathered. The prophet signifies that the Lord, like a ploughman, had different sorts of work; he was not always doing one and the same thing; and particularly, that he would not be always admonishing and threatening men, and making preparation for his judgments, but in a little time he would execute them, signified by after metaphors:
doth he open and break the clods of his ground? he does, with a mallet or iron bar, or with the harrow; whereby the ground is made even, and so more fit for sowing. The Targum interprets the whole in a mystical sense, of the instructions of the prophets, thus,
"at all times the prophets prophesy to teach, if perhaps the ears of sinners may be opened to receive instruction;''
and it may be applied to the work of the Spirit of God upon men's hearts, by the ministry of the word: the heart of man is like the "fallow ground", hard and obdurate, barren and unfruitful; the ministry of the word is the "plough", and ministers are the "ploughmen"; but it is the Spirit of God that makes their ministrations useful, for the conviction of the mind, the pricking of the heart, and breaking it in pieces; see Jeremiah 4:3.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Doth the plowman ... - The question here asked implies that he does “not” plow all the day. The interrogative form is often the most emphatic mode of affirmation.
All day - The sense is, does he do nothing else but plow? Is this the only thing which is necessary to be done in order to obtain a harvest? The idea which the prophet intends to convey here is this. A farmer does not suppose that he can obtain a harvest by doing nothing else but plow. There is much else to be done. So it would be just as absurd to suppose that God would deal with his people always in the same manner, as it would be for the farmer to be engaged in nothing else but plowing.
Doth he open ... - That is, is he always engaged in opening, and breaking the clods of his field? There is much else to be done besides this. The word ‘open’ here refers to the furrows that are made by the plow. The earth is laid open as it were to the sunbeams, and to the showers of rain, and to the reception of seed. The word rendered ‘break’ (ישׁדד yshadēd) properly means “to harrow,” that is, to break up the clods by harrowing Job 39:10; Hosea 10:11.
