Isaiah 28:25

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Once he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter the seed of the caraway plant, sow the seed of the cumin plant, and plant the wheat, barley, and grain in their designated places?

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 9:31-32 : 31 (Now the flax and the barley were struck by the hail, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bud. 32 But the wheat and the spelt were not struck, for they are later crops.)
  • Ezek 4:9 : 9 “As for you, take wheat, barley, beans, lentils, millet, and spelt, put them in a single container, and make food from them for yourself. For the same number of days that you lie on your side– 390 days– you will eat it.
  • Matt 23:23 : 23 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law– justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.

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  • 24Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

  • Isa 28:26-28
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    26His God instructs him; he teaches him the principles of agriculture.

    27Certainly caraway seed is not threshed with a sledge, nor is the wheel of a cart rolled over cumin seed. Certainly caraway seed is beaten with a stick, and cumin seed with a flail.

    28Grain is crushed, though one certainly does not thresh it forever. The wheel of one’s wagon rolls over it, but his horses do not crush it.

  • Isa 30:23-24
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    23He will water the seed you plant in the ground, and the ground will produce crops in abundance. At that time your cattle will graze in wide pastures.

    24The oxen and donkeys used in plowing will eat seasoned feed winnowed with a shovel and pitchfork.

  • Mark 4:26-28
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    26The Parable of the Growing Seed He also said,“The kingdom of God is like someone who spreads seed on the ground.

    27He goes to sleep and gets up, night and day, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he does not know how.

    28By itself the soil produces a crop, first the stalk, then the head, then the full grain in the head.

  • 7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!

  • 17The grains of seed have shriveled beneath their shovels. Storehouses have been decimated and granaries have been torn down, for the grain has dried up.

  • 37They cultivated fields, and planted vineyards, which yielded a harvest of fruit.

  • 5“A sower went out to sow his seed. And as he sowed, some fell along the path and was trampled on, and the wild birds devoured it.

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    27So the slaves of the landowner came and said to him,‘Sir, didn’t you sow good seed in your field? Then where did the darnel come from?’

    28He said,‘An enemy has done this!’ So the slaves replied,‘Do you want us to go and gather it?’

    29But he said,‘No, since in gathering the darnel you may uproot the wheat along with it.

    30Let both grow together until the harvest. At harvest time I will tell the reapers,“First collect the darnel and tie it in bundles to be burned, but then gather the wheat into my barn.”’”

    31The Parable of the Mustard Seed He gave them another parable:“The kingdom of heaven is like a mustard seed that a man took and sowed in his field.

  • 9Illustrations of the Principle of Purity You must not plant your vineyard with two kinds of seed; otherwise the entire yield, both of the seed you plant and the produce of the vineyard, will be defiled.

  • 25When you go into the ripe grain fields of your neighbor you may pluck off the kernels with your hand, but you must not use a sickle on your neighbor’s ripe grain.

  • 25When the hay is removed and new grass appears, and the grass from the hills is gathered in,

  • 9Leaving the Gleanings“‘When you gather in the harvest of your land, you must not completely harvest the corner of your field, and you must not gather up the gleanings of your harvest.

  • 27to satisfy a devastated and desolate land, and to cause it to sprout with vegetation?

  • 38The Curse of Reversed Status“You will take much seed to the field but gather little harvest, because locusts will consume it.

  • 3“Listen! A sower went out to sow.

  • 12Can you count on it to bring in your grain, and gather the grain to your threshing floor?

  • 14The sower sows the word.

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    24The Parable of the Weeds He presented them with another parable:“The kingdom of heaven is like a person who sowed good seed in his field.

    25But while everyone was sleeping, an enemy came and sowed darnel among the wheat and went away.

  • 31(Now the flax and the barley were struck by the hail, for the barley had ripened and the flax was in bud.

  • 11The day you begin cultivating, you do what you can to make it grow; the morning you begin planting, you do what you can to make it sprout. Yet the harvest will disappear in the day of disease and incurable pain.

  • 6Sow your seed in the morning, and do not stop working until the evening; for you do not know which activity will succeed– whether this one or that one, or whether both will prosper equally.

  • 37And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare seed– perhaps of wheat or something else.

  • 12Sow righteousness for yourselves, reap unfailing love. Break up the unplowed ground for yourselves, for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and showers deliverance on you.

  • 10You saturate its furrows, and soak its plowed ground. With rain showers you soften its soil, and make its crops grow.

  • 10Now God who provides seed for the sower and bread for food will provide and multiply your supply of seed and will cause the harvest of your righteousness to grow.

  • 10Or is he not surely speaking for our benefit? It was written for us, because the one plowing and threshing ought to work in hope of enjoying the harvest.

  • 10The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.

  • 31It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground–

  • 20If you say,‘What will we eat in the seventh year if we do not sow and gather our produce?’

  • 5For before the harvest, when the bud has sprouted, and the ripening fruit appears, he will cut off the unproductive shoots with pruning knives; he will prune the tendrils.

  • 25They will stay away from all the hills that were cultivated, for fear of the thorns and briers. Cattle will graze there and sheep will trample on them.

  • 14He provides grass for the cattle, and crops for people to cultivate, so they can produce food from the ground,

  • 6My point is this: The person who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the person who sows generously will also reap generously.

  • 4And as he sowed, some seeds fell along the path, and the birds came and devoured them.

  • 11Be distressed, farmers; wail, vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley. For the harvest of the field has perished.

  • 6They reap fodder in the field, and glean in the vineyard of the wicked.

  • 3Yes, this is what the LORD has said to the people of Judah and Jerusalem:“Break up your unplowed ground, do not cast seeds among thorns.

  • 4You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.

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