24 When a farmer plows for planting,(A) does he plow continually?
    Does he keep on breaking up and working the soil?

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11 Ephraim is a trained heifer
    that loves to thresh;
so I will put a yoke(A)
    on her fair neck.
I will drive Ephraim,
    Judah must plow,
    and Jacob must break up the ground.
12 Sow(B) righteousness(C) for yourselves,
    reap the fruit of unfailing love,
and break up your unplowed ground;(D)
    for it is time to seek(E) the Lord,
until he comes
    and showers his righteousness(F) on you.

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This is what the Lord says to the people of Judah and to Jerusalem:

“Break up your unplowed ground(A)
    and do not sow among thorns.(B)

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