Isaiah 28:24
Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?
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- Jer 4:3 : 3 For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.
- Hos 10:11-12 : 11 And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth. 12 Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.
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25 When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?
- Isa 28:27-282 verses74%
27 For the fitches are not crushed with a sharp instrument, and a cart-wheel is not rolled over the cummin; but the grain of the fitches is hammered out with a stick, and of the cummin with a rod.
28 Is the grain for bread crushed? He does not go on crushing it for ever, but he lets his cart-wheels and his horses go over it without crushing it.
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10 Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.
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14 The seed is the word.
- Isa 30:23-242 verses71%
23 And he will give rain for your seed, so that you may put it in the earth; and you will have bread from the produce of the earth, good and more than enough for your needs: in that day the cattle will get their food in wide grass-lands.
24 And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.
- Mark 4:26-283 verses71%
26 And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,
27 And went to sleep and got up, night and day, and the seed came to growth, though he had no idea how.
28 The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.
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7 He who gets in the grain has no use for it; and they do not make bands of it for the grain-stems.
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12 Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.
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3 For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.
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11 In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.
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3 A man went out to put seed in the earth:
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27 To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?
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6 In the morning put your seed into the earth, and till the evening let not your hand be at rest; because you are not certain which will do well, this or that--or if the two will be equally good.
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17 The grains have become small and dry under the spade; the store-houses are made waste, the grain-stores are broken down; for the grain is dry and dead.
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24 And he gave them another story, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a man who put good seed in his field:
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4 Those who do work on the land are in fear, for there has been no rain on the land, and the farmers are shamed, covering their heads.
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8 What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
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37 And put seed in the fields and make vine-gardens, to give them fruit.
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4 The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.
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27 And the servants of the master of the house came and said to him, Sir, did you not put good seed in your field? how then has it evil plants?
28 And he said, Someone has done this in hate. And the servants say to him, Is it your pleasure that we go and take them up?
29 But he says, No, for fear that by chance while you take up the evil plants, you may be rooting up the grain with them.
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5 A man went out to put in seed, and while he was doing it, some was dropped by the wayside and it was crushed under foot, and was taken by the birds of heaven.
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6 They get mixed grain from the field, and they take away the late fruit from the vines of those who have wealth.
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3 The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.
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19 By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.
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7 Who ever goes to war without looking to someone to be responsible for his payment? who puts in vines and does not take the fruit of them? or who takes care of sheep without drinking of their milk?
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11 He who does work on his land will not be short of bread; but he who goes after foolish men is without sense.
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23 Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.
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4 He who is watching the wind will not get the seed planted, and he who is looking at the clouds will not get in the grain.
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38 If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;
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38 When the earth becomes hard as metal, and is joined together in masses?
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18 Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.
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38 You will take much seed out into the field, and get little in; for the locust will get it.
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10 You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.
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10 For as the rain comes down, and the snow from heaven, and does not go back again, but gives water to the earth, and makes it fertile, giving seed to the planter, and bread for food;
- John 4:36-372 verses67%
36 He who does the cutting now has his reward; he is getting together fruit for eternal life, so that he who did the planting and he who gets in the grain may have joy together.
37 In this the saying is a true one, One does the planting, and another gets in the grain.
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24 And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.
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25 Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?
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4 Do not keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it.
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20 Happy are you who are planting seed by all the waters, and sending out the ox and the ass.
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12 Will the ox of the mountains be your servant? or is his night's resting-place by your food-store?
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6 Though a man may go out weeping, taking his vessel of seed with him; he will come again in joy, with the corded stems of grain in his arms.
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6 It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.