Does the plowman plow all day to sow? does he open and break the clods of his ground?
A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
Give you ear, and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.
When he has made plain the face thereof, does he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rye in their place?
For thus said the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.