Isaiah 28:24–26

Does he who plows for sowing plow continually?

Does he continually open and harrow his ground?

When he has leveled its surface,

does he not scatter dill, sow cumin,

and put in wheat in rows

and barley in its proper place,

and emmer as the border?

For he is rightly instructed;

his God teaches him.

When a farmer plows for planting, does he plow continually?

Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?

When he has leveled the surface,

does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin?

Does he not plant wheat in its place,

barley in its plot,

and spelt in its field?

His God instructs him

and teaches him the right way.

Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?

Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?

When he has leveled its surface,

does he not then scatter black cumin and sow cumin?

He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots,

with spelt as their border.

His God teaches him order;

he instructs him.

Does a farmer always plow and never sow?

Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting?

Does he not finally plant his seeds—

black cumin, cumin, wheat, barley, and emmer wheat—

each in its proper way,

and each in its proper place?

The farmer knows just what to do,

for God has given him understanding.

Is it all day that the plowman plows,

opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?

When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill,

and sow cumin seed,

and plant wheat in planted rows,

and barley in an appointed place,

and spelt grain as its border?

And his God instructs him about the prescription;

he teaches him.

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?

Doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

When he hath made plain the face thereof,

Doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin,

And cast in the principal wheat

And the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.