Holy Scripture
Isaiah 28:24
A church father on this verse
“(Vers. 23 seqq.) Pay attention and listen to my voice: listen and hear my speech. Does the plowman plow all day to sow, break up the soil, and harrow it? When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow dill, scatter cumin, plant wheat in rows, barley, millet, and rye in their proper place? For his God instructs him a…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
24Will the plowman plow all the day? or will he prepare the seed beforehand, before he tills the ground?
Modern
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In context
22Therefore do not ye rejoice, neither let your bands be made strong; for I have heard of works finished and cut short by the Lord of hosts, which he will execute upon all the earth.
23Hearken, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my words.
— Isaiah 28:24 —
25Does he not, when he has leveled the surface thereof, then sow the small black poppy, or cumin, and afterward sow wheat, and barley, and millet, and bread corn in thy borders?
26So thou shalt be chastened by the judgment of thy God, and shalt rejoice.