Isaiah Chapter 28 verse 24 Holy Bible
Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he `continually' open and harrow his ground?
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Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?
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Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he [all day] opening and breaking the clods of his land?
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Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
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Does he who plows to sow plow continually? does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?
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The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 24. - Doth the plowman plow all day? 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. Doth he open and break, etc.? Harrowing succeeds to ploughing in the natural order of things, the object of the harrowing being to break and pulverize the clods.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(24) Doth the plowman plow all day . . .?--Better, every day. Ploughing represents naturally, as in Jeremiah 4:3, 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.