Isaiah 28:23-29

Common English Bible

²³ Listen and hear my voice;
    pay attention and hear my word:
²⁴ Does the plowman plow without stopping for planting,
    opening and harrowing their ground?
²⁵ When he has smoothed its surface,
    doesn’t he scatter fennel,^[a] and sow cumin,
    and plant wheat and barley in their places,
    and spelt as a border?
²⁶ They are properly ordered;
    their God directs them.^[b]
27 Fennel^[c] isn’t threshed with a threshing sledge,
    nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin,
    but fennel^[d] is beaten with a staff,
    and cumin with a rod.
²⁸ Bread grain is crushed,
    but the thresher^[e] doesn’t thresh it forever.
    He drives the cart wheel over it;
        he spreads it out but doesn’t crush it.
²⁹ This also comes from the Lord of heavenly forces,
    who gives wondrous counsel and increases wisdom.