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 cumin,
and plant wheat in rows
    and barley in its proper place^[a]
    and spelt as the border?
²⁶ For they are well instructed;
    their God teaches them.

²⁷ For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
    nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin,
but dill is beaten out with a stick
    and cumin with a rod.^(A)
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.^(B)