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Isaiah 28:24

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28:24Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time?53

Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

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Footnotes

  1. 53 Heb “All the day does the plowman plow in order to plant?” The phrase “all the day” here has the sense of “continually, always.” See 400 יוֹם.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Does he who plows for sowing plow continually?

Does he continually open and harrow his ground?

NIVNew International Version (2011)

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

Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Does the plowman plow every day to plant seed?

Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?

NLTNew Living Translation

Does a farmer always plow and never sow?

Is he forever cultivating the soil and never planting?

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Is it all day that the plowman plows,

opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?

KJV 1900King James Version

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow?

Doth he open and break the clods of his ground?