Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?
A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;
Let your ears be open to my voice; give attention to what I say.
When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.