Isaiah 28:23-29

Evangelical Heritage Version

²³ Listen! Hear my voice.
Pay attention to what I say.
²⁴ Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to plant?
Does he keep tilling the soil and turning over the dirt?
²⁵ When he has leveled the surface,
doesn’t he plant the dill
and scatter cumin seed?
He plants the wheat in one place,
barley in another field,
and spelt along the edge.
²⁶ His God instructs him
and teaches him good judgment.
²⁷ Of course he does not thresh the dill with a threshing sledge,
nor does he roll the wheel of a cart over the cumin.
No, he beats the dill with a stick
and strikes the cumin with a staff.
²⁸ Flour for bread needs to be ground,
so he does not thresh endlessly.
He drives the wheels of his threshing cart over it
and even his team of horses,
but he does not pulverize it.
²⁹ This also springs forth from the Lord of Armies.
He gives amazing advice.
He provides great guidance.