Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?
For thus says LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Give ye ear, and hear my voice, hearken, and hear my speech.
When he has leveled the face of it, does he not cast abroad the chick-peas, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border of it?
a time to be born, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted,