Isaiah 28:24 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁴ Do those who plow for sowing plow continually? Do they continually open and harrow their ground?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁴ Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁴ Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continue to plow and harrow the ground after it is smooth?

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁴ Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?

Common English Bible

²⁴ Does the plowman plow without stopping for planting, opening and harrowing their ground?

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁴ Would the plowman, after plowing all day so that he may sow, instead cut open and hoe his soil?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁴ Shall the ploughman plough all the day to sow, shall he open and harrow his ground?

Isaiah 28:24 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 3:2

a time to be born and a time to die; a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted;

Isaiah 28:23

Listen and hear my voice; Pay attention and hear my speech.

Isaiah 28:25

When they have leveled its surface, do they not scatter dill, sow cumin, and plant wheat in rows and barley in its proper place and spelt as the border?

Jeremiah 4:3

For thus says the Lord to the people of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem: Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.