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Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nlt/isaiah/28.htm">New Living Translation</a></span><br />Does a farmer always plow and never sow? Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/isaiah/28.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/28.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/isaiah/28.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/isaiah/28.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/isaiah/28.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he <i>continually</i> turn and break up his ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/isaiah/28.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and harrow the ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/isaiah/28.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he <i>continually</i> turn and harrow the ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/isaiah/28.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he <i>continually</i> turn and harrow his ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/isaiah/28.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />Does the farmer plow all day to plant seed? Does he <i>continually</i> dig furrows and harrow his ground [after it is prepared]?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/isaiah/28.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed? Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/isaiah/28.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed? Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/isaiah/28.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/isaiah/28.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Farmers don't just plow and break up the ground. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/isaiah/28.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Doth the plowman plow continually to sow? doth he continually open and break the clods of his ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/isaiah/28.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Does a farmer go on plowing every day so he can plant? Does he continue to break up the soil and make furrows in the ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/isaiah/28.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />Farmers don't constantly plow their fields and keep getting them ready for planting. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/isaiah/28.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Does he who plows for sowing plow all the time? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing his field?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/isaiah/28.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/isaiah/28.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/isaiah/28.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/isaiah/28.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/isaiah/28.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods? <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/isaiah/28.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Does the plowman plow the whole day to sow? He opens and harrows his ground!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/isaiah/28.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/isaiah/28.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Shall he ploughing, plough all the day to sow? shall he open and level his earth?<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/isaiah/28.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/isaiah/28.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Would the plowman, after plowing all day so that he may sow, instead cut open and hoe his soil?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/isaiah/28.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Is the plowman forever plowing in order to sow, always loosening and harrowing the field? <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/isaiah/28.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Do those who plow for sowing plow continually? Do they continually open and harrow their ground?<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/isaiah/28.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and harrow his ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/isaiah/28.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Does a farmer plough all day to sow and turn over and break up his ground?<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/isaiah/28.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, With the opening and harrowing of his ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/isaiah/28.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Will the ploughman plough all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/isaiah/28-24.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xv9bHT-nr9s?start=5817" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/isaiah/28.htm">Listen and Hear</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23</span>Listen and hear my voice. Pay attention and hear what I say. <span class="reftext">24</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/2790.htm" title="2790: ya·ḥă·rōš (V-Qal-Imperf-3ms) -- To cut in, engrave, plow, devise.">Does the plowman</a> <a href="/hebrew/2790.htm" title="2790: ha·ḥō·rêš (Art:: V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To cut in, engrave, plow, devise.">plow</a> <a href="/hebrew/2232.htm" title="2232: liz·rō·a‘ (Prep-l:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To sow, scatter seed. A primitive root; to sow; figuratively, to disseminate, plant, fructify.">for planting</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: hă·ḵōl (Art:: N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">every</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: hay·yō·wm (Art:: N-ms) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">day?</a> <a href="/hebrew/6605.htm" title="6605: yə·p̄at·taḥ (V-Piel-Imperf-3ms) -- To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve. A primitive root; to open wide; specifically, to loosen, begin, plough, carve.">Does he continuously loosen</a> <a href="/hebrew/7702.htm" title="7702: wî·śad·dêḏ (Conj-w:: V-Piel-ConjImperf-3ms) -- To harrow. A primitive root; to abrade, i.e. Harrow a field.">and harrow</a> <a href="/hebrew/127.htm" title="127: ’aḏ·mā·ṯōw (N-fsc:: 3ms) -- Ground, land. From 'adam; soil.">the soil?</a> </span><span class="reftext">25</span>When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/13-3.htm">Matthew 13:3-9</a></span><br />And He told them many things in parables, saying, “A farmer went out to sow his seed. / And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. / Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/mark/4-3.htm">Mark 4:3-9</a></span><br />“Listen! A farmer went out to sow his seed. / And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured it. / Some fell on rocky ground, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly because the soil was shallow. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/8-5.htm">Luke 8:5-8</a></span><br />“A farmer went out to sow his seed. And as he was sowing, some seed fell along the path, where it was trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it. / Some fell on rocky ground, and when it came up, the seedlings withered because they had no moisture. / Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up with it and choked the seedlings. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/james/5-7.htm">James 5:7</a></span><br />Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/3-6.htm">1 Corinthians 3:6-9</a></span><br />I planted the seed and Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. / So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. / He who plants and he who waters are one in purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/galatians/6-7.htm">Galatians 6:7-9</a></span><br />Do not be deceived: God is not to be mocked. Whatever a man sows, he will reap in return. / The one who sows to please his flesh, from the flesh will reap destruction; but the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life. / Let us not grow weary in well-doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hebrews/6-7.htm">Hebrews 6:7-8</a></span><br />For land that drinks in the rain often falling on it and that produces a crop useful to those for whom it is tended receives the blessing of God. / But land that produces thorns and thistles is worthless, and its curse is imminent. In the end it will be burned.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/john/4-35.htm">John 4:35-38</a></span><br />Do you not say, ‘There are still four months until the harvest’? I tell you, lift up your eyes and look at the fields, for they are ripe for harvest. / Already the reaper draws his wages and gathers a crop for eternal life, so that the sower and the reaper may rejoice together. / For in this case the saying ‘One sows and another reaps’ is true. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/9-10.htm">2 Corinthians 9:10</a></span><br />Now He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your store of seed and will increase the harvest of your righteousness.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/9-37.htm">Matthew 9:37-38</a></span><br />Then He said to His disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. / Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into His harvest.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/psalms/126-5.htm">Psalm 126:5-6</a></span><br />Those who sow in tears will reap with shouts of joy. / He who goes out weeping, bearing a trail of seed, will surely return with shouts of joy, carrying sheaves of grain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/4-3.htm">Jeremiah 4:3</a></span><br />For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/10-12.htm">Hosea 10:12</a></span><br />Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/20-4.htm">Proverbs 20:4</a></span><br />The slacker does not plow in season; at harvest time he looks, but nothing is there.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/11-4.htm">Ecclesiastes 11:4-6</a></span><br />He who watches the wind will fail to sow, and he who observes the clouds will fail to reap. / As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things. / Sow your seed in the morning, and do not rest your hands in the evening, for you do not know which will succeed, whether this or that, or if both will equally prosper.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the clods of his ground?</p><p class="hdg">break</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/jeremiah/4-3.htm">Jeremiah 4:3</a></b></br> For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/hosea/10-11.htm">Hosea 10:11,12</a></b></br> And Ephraim <i>is as</i> an heifer <i>that is</i> taught, <i>and</i> loveth to tread out <i>the corn</i>; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, <i>and</i> Jacob shall break his clods… </p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/isaiah/22-25.htm">Break</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-5.htm">Breaking</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-18.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/psalms/65-10.htm">Clods</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-3.htm">Continually</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-22.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/genesis/9-20.htm">Farmer</a> <a href="/isaiah/26-5.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-23.htm">Open</a> <a href="/proverbs/31-26.htm">Openeth</a> <a href="/isaiah/22-22.htm">Opening</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-11.htm">Plant</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-4.htm">Plougheth</a> <a href="/proverbs/28-19.htm">Ploughing</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-10.htm">Ploughman</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-4.htm">Plow</a> <a href="/psalms/141-7.htm">Ploweth</a> <a href="/proverbs/21-4.htm">Plowing</a> <a href="/amos/9-13.htm">Plowman</a> <a href="/psalms/141-7.htm">Plows</a> <a href="/isaiah/27-13.htm">Ready</a> <a href="/isaiah/23-3.htm">Seed</a> <a href="/songs/5-3.htm">Soil</a> <a href="/isaiah/17-11.htm">Sow</a> <a href="/ecclesiastes/11-6.htm">Sowing</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-6.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-6.htm">Turning</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-22.htm">Whole</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/isaiah/28-28.htm">Break</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-13.htm">Breaking</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-14.htm">Broken</a> <a href="/hosea/10-11.htm">Clods</a> <a href="/isaiah/49-16.htm">Continually</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm">Earth</a> <a href="/jeremiah/31-24.htm">Farmer</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-28.htm">Ground</a> <a href="/isaiah/35-5.htm">Open</a> <a href="/isaiah/53-7.htm">Openeth</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-14.htm">Opening</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm">Plant</a> <a href="/proverbs/20-4.htm">Plougheth</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-24.htm">Ploughing</a> <a href="/amos/9-13.htm">Ploughman</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-24.htm">Plow</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-10.htm">Ploweth</a> <a href="/luke/17-7.htm">Plowing</a> <a href="/amos/9-13.htm">Plowman</a> <a href="/1_corinthians/9-10.htm">Plows</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-13.htm">Ready</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm">Seed</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-24.htm">Soil</a> <a href="/isaiah/30-23.htm">Sow</a> <a href="/isaiah/32-20.htm">Sowing</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-16.htm">Turn</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-16.htm">Turning</a> <a href="/isaiah/29-11.htm">Whole</a><div class="vheading2">Isaiah 28</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/28-1.htm">The prophet threatens Ephraim for their pride and drunkenness</a></span><br><span class="reftext">5. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/28-5.htm">The residue shall be advanced in the kingdom of Christ</a></span><br><span class="reftext">7. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/28-7.htm">He rebukes their error</a></span><br><span class="reftext">9. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/28-9.htm">Their unwillingness to learn</a></span><br><span class="reftext">14. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/28-14.htm">And their security</a></span><br><span class="reftext">16. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/28-16.htm">Christ the sure foundation is promised</a></span><br><span class="reftext">17. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/28-17.htm">Their security shall be tried</a></span><br><span class="reftext">23. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/isaiah/28-23.htm">They are incited to the consideration of God's providence</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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In ancient Israel, agriculture was a central part of life, and the audience would understand the futility of plowing without end. The plowman represents God, who knows when to plow and when to plant, symbolizing His perfect timing in judgment and restoration. This can be connected to <a href="/ecclesiastes/3.htm">Ecclesiastes 3:1</a>, which speaks of a time for every purpose under heaven. The plowman’s work is not endless; it is purposeful, just as God's actions are intentional and aimed at bringing about His divine plan.<p><b>Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?</b><br>Loosening and harrowing the soil are preparatory steps for planting, emphasizing the necessity of preparation before growth. In the context of Isaiah, this can be seen as a metaphor for God's preparation of His people through discipline and teaching. The process of harrowing, which breaks up the soil, can be likened to the trials and tribulations that refine and prepare believers for spiritual growth. This imagery is echoed in <a href="/hebrews/12-11.htm">Hebrews 12:11</a>, where discipline is described as painful yet yielding the peaceful fruit of righteousness. The question implies that just as a farmer does not endlessly prepare the soil, God’s discipline is not without end but is designed to lead to a fruitful outcome.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/i/isaiah.htm">Isaiah</a></b><br>The prophet who delivered God's messages to the people of Judah and Israel. He is known for his prophecies concerning judgment and redemption.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/j/judah_and_israel.htm">Judah and Israel</a></b><br>The divided kingdoms to whom Isaiah prophesied. They were often warned about their disobedience and called to repentance.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/t/the_plowman.htm">The Plowman</a></b><br>A metaphorical figure representing those who prepare the ground for planting. In this context, it symbolizes God's work in preparing His people for growth and fruitfulness.<br><br>4. <b><a href="/topical/a/agricultural_imagery.htm">Agricultural Imagery</a></b><br>The use of farming practices as metaphors for spiritual truths. This imagery is common in the Bible to illustrate God's work and human response.<br><br>5. <b><a href="/topical/g/god's_judgment_and_redemption.htm">God's Judgment and Redemption</a></b><br>The broader context of <a href="/bsb/isaiah/28.htm">Isaiah 28</a> includes themes of judgment against disobedience and the promise of restoration for those who repent.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/p/purposeful_preparation.htm">Purposeful Preparation</a></b><br>Just as a plowman does not plow indefinitely, God prepares us for specific purposes. We should be attentive to His timing and direction in our lives.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/seasons_of_growth.htm">Seasons of Growth</a></b><br>Recognize that life has seasons, and not every moment is for planting. There are times for preparation, growth, and harvest. Trust in God's perfect timing.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/s/spiritual_readiness.htm">Spiritual Readiness</a></b><br>Like the soil that must be prepared, our hearts need to be ready to receive God's word. This involves repentance, humility, and openness to His leading.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/g/god's_sovereignty.htm">God's Sovereignty</a></b><br>Understand that God is in control of the process. He knows when to plow, plant, and harvest. Our role is to trust and obey His guidance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/a/active_participation.htm">Active Participation</a></b><br>While God prepares and plants, we are called to actively participate in His work by cultivating our spiritual lives and bearing fruit.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_isaiah_28.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Isaiah 28</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/compare_native_beliefs_and_christianity..htm">How do Native American beliefs and Christianity compare?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/is_amos_9_13's_prophecy_literal_or_symbolic.htm">Amos 9:13 - Is the prophecy of the plowman overtaking the reaper a literal farming impossibility, and does it conflict with more realistic agricultural references elsewhere in scripture?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/jeremiah_42__aligns_with_god's_teachings.htm">Jeremiah 42 (overall): How do the warnings and outcomes in this chapter align with other biblical teachings on God's protection and judgment, and are there any inconsistencies?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/bible's_view_on_heaven_and_hell.htm">Who was C.T. Studd and his missionary impact?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/isaiah/28.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(24) <span class= "bld">Doth the plowman plow all day . . .?</span>--Better, <span class= "ital">every day. </span>Ploughing represents naturally, as in <a href="/jeremiah/4-3.htm" title="For thus said the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.">Jeremiah 4:3</a>, the preparatory discipline by which the spiritual soil is rendered fit for the sower's work. It is a means, and not an end, and is, therefore, in its very nature but for a season. To a nation passing through this stage, Assyrian invaders scoring their long furrows visibly on the surface of the land, the parable gave the hope that this was preparing the way for the seed-time of a better harvest.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/isaiah/28.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 24.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Doth the plowman plow all day</span>? The Church of God, go often called a vineyard, is here compared to an arable field, and the processes by which God educates and disciplines his Church are compared to those employed by man in the cultivation of such a piece of ground, and the obtaining of a harvest, from it. First of all, the ground must be ploughed, the face of the earth "opened" and the "clods broken." This, however, does not go on forever; it is for an object - that the seed may be sown; and, as soon as the ground is fit for the sowing to take place, the preparation of the soil ceases. <span class="cmt_word">Doth he open and break</span>, etc.? Harrowing succeeds to ploughing in the natural order of things, the object of the harrowing being to break and pulverize the clods. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/isaiah/28-24.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Does the plowman</span><br /><span class="heb">יַחֲרֹ֥שׁ</span> <span class="translit">(ya·ḥă·rōš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2790.htm">Strong's 2790: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cut in, engrave, plow, devise</span><br /><br /><span class="word">plow</span><br /><span class="heb">הַחֹרֵ֖שׁ</span> <span class="translit">(ha·ḥō·rêš)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2790.htm">Strong's 2790: </a> </span><span class="str2">To cut in, engrave, plow, devise</span><br /><br /><span class="word">for planting</span><br /><span class="heb">לִזְרֹ֑עַ</span> <span class="translit">(liz·rō·a‘)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2232.htm">Strong's 2232: </a> </span><span class="str2">To sow, to disseminate, plant, fructify</span><br /><br /><span class="word">every</span><br /><span class="heb">הֲכֹ֣ל</span> <span class="translit">(hă·ḵōl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> </span><span class="str2">The whole, all, any, every</span><br /><br /><span class="word">day?</span><br /><span class="heb">הַיּ֔וֹם</span> <span class="translit">(hay·yō·wm)</span><br /><span class="parse">Article | Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> </span><span class="str2">A day</span><br /><br /><span class="word">Does he continuously loosen</span><br /><span class="heb">יְפַתַּ֥ח</span> <span class="translit">(yə·p̄at·taḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6605.htm">Strong's 6605: </a> </span><span class="str2">To open wide, to loosen, begin, plough, carve</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and harrow</span><br /><span class="heb">וִֽישַׂדֵּ֖ד</span> <span class="translit">(wî·śad·dêḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7702.htm">Strong's 7702: </a> </span><span class="str2">To abrade, harrow a, field</span><br /><br /><span class="word">the soil?</span><br /><span class="heb">אַדְמָתֽוֹ׃</span> <span class="translit">(’aḏ·mā·ṯōw)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_127.htm">Strong's 127: </a> </span><span class="str2">Ground, land</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/isaiah/28-24.htm">Isaiah 28:24 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/isaiah/28-24.htm">Isaiah 28:24 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/isaiah/28-24.htm">Isaiah 28:24 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/isaiah/28-24.htm">Isaiah 28:24 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/isaiah/28-24.htm">Isaiah 28:24 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/isaiah/28-24.htm">Isaiah 28:24 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/isaiah/28-24.htm">Isaiah 28:24 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/isaiah/28-24.htm">Isaiah 28:24 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/isaiah/28-24.htm">Isaiah 28:24 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/isaiah/28-24.htm">Isaiah 28:24 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/isaiah/28-24.htm">OT Prophets: Isaiah 28:24 Does he who plows to sow plow (Isa Isi Is)</a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/isaiah/28-23.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Isaiah 28:23"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Isaiah 28:23" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/isaiah/28-25.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Isaiah 28:25"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Isaiah 28:25" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>