Isaiah 28:23-29

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²³ Listen, and hear my voice;
    Pay attention, and hear my speech.
²⁴ Do those who plow for sowing plow continually?
    Do they continually open and harrow their ground?
²⁵ When they have leveled its surface,
    do they not scatter dill, sow cummin,
and plant wheat in rows
    and barley in its proper place,
    and spelt as the border?
²⁶ For they are well instructed;
    their God teaches them.

²⁷ Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
    nor is a cart wheel rolled over cummin;
but dill is beaten out with a stick,
    and cummin with a rod.
²⁸ Grain is crushed for bread,
    but one does not thresh it forever;
one drives the cart wheel and horses over it,
    but does not pulverize it.
²⁹ This also comes from the Lord of hosts;
    he is wonderful in counsel,
    and excellent in wisdom.