Isaiah 28:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the clods of his ground?

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  • Jer 4:3 : 3 For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your unplowed ground, and sow not among thorns.
  • Hos 10:11-12 : 11 And Ephraim is like a trained heifer that loves to thresh grain; but I put a yoke on her fair neck: I will make Ephraim ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods. 12 Sow for yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

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    25When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow the black cumin and scatter the cumin, plant the wheat in rows, the barley in its appointed place, and the spelt in its place?

  • Isa 28:27-28
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    27For the black cumin is not threshed with a threshing instrument, nor is a cartwheel rolled over the cumin; but the black cumin is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.

    28Bread grain is crushed, yet he does not thresh it forever, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with his horsemen.

  • 1 Cor 9:10
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    10Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should partake of his hope.

  • Mark 4:14
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    14The sower sows the word.

  • Isa 30:23-24
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    23Then shall he give the rain for your seed, that you shall sow the ground with; and bread of the increase of the earth, and it shall be rich and plentiful: in that day your cattle shall feed in large pastures.

    24The oxen likewise and the young donkeys that till the ground shall eat clean provender, which has been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

  • Mark 4:26-28
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    26And he said, The kingdom of God is as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

    27and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he does not know how.

    28For the earth yields fruit by itself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

  • Ps 129:7
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    7With which the mower does not fill his hand, nor he who binds sheaves his bosom.

  • Hos 10:12
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    12Sow for yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

  • Jer 4:3
    71%

    3For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your unplowed ground, and sow not among thorns.

  • Isa 17:11
    70%

    11In the day you shall make your plant to grow, and in the morning you shall make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and desperate sorrow.

  • Mark 4:3
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    3Listen; behold, a sower went out to sow:

  • Job 38:27
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    27To satisfy the desolate and waste ground, and to cause the sprout of tender grass to spring forth?

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    6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not withhold your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, either this or that, or whether both will be equally good.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • Matt 13:24
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    24He put another parable before them: The kingdom of heaven is like a man who sowed good seed in his field.

  • Jer 14:4
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    4Because the ground is cracked, for there was no rain on the earth, the farmers were ashamed, they covered their heads.

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    8Even as I have seen, those who plow iniquity and sow wickedness reap the same.

  • Ps 107:37
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    37And sow the fields, and plant vineyards, which may yield fruits of increase.

  • Prov 20:4
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    4The sluggard will not plow because of the cold; therefore he shall beg during harvest, and have nothing.

  • Matt 13:27-29
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    27The owner's servants came to him and said, Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Where then did the weeds come from?

    28He replied, An enemy did this. The servants asked him, Do you want us to go and pull them up?

    29No, he answered, because while you are pulling the weeds, you may uproot the wheat with them.

  • Luke 8:5
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    5A sower went out to sow his seed: and as he sowed, some fell by the wayside; and it was trampled, and the birds of the air devoured it.

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    6They reap each one his grain in the field and gather the vintage of the wicked.

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    3The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.

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    19He who tills his land shall have plenty of bread, but he who follows vain persons shall have poverty enough.

  • 1 Cor 9:7
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    7Who goes to war at his own expense? Who plants a vineyard and does not eat of its fruit? Or who tends a flock and does not drink of the milk of the flock?

  • Prov 12:11
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    11He who tills his land will be satisfied with bread, but he who follows vain persons is void of understanding.

  • Isa 28:23
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    23Give ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.

  • Eccl 11:4
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    4He who observes the wind will not sow, and he who regards the clouds will not reap.

  • Job 31:38
    68%

    38If my land cries against me, or its furrows likewise complain;

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    68%

    38When the dust hardens into clumps, and the clods cling together?

  • Matt 13:18
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    18Listen then to what the parable of the sower means.

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    38You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

  • Ps 65:10
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  • Isa 55:10
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    67%

    36And he who reaps receives wages, and gathers fruit for eternal life, that both he who sows and he who reaps may rejoice together.

    37For in this the saying is true, One sows and another reaps.

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    67%

    24Neither do they say in their heart, Let us now fear the LORD our God, that gives rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserves unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

  • Job 13:25
    67%

    25Will you break a leaf driven to and fro, and will you pursue dry stubble?

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    67%

    4You shall not muzzle the ox when he treads out the grain.

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    20Blessed are you who sow beside all waters, who send forth the feet of the ox and the donkey.

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    12Will you rely on him to bring home your grain and gather it into your barn?

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    6The hardworking farmer must be first to partake of the crops.