Does he who plows for sowing plow continually? Does he continually open and harrow his ground?
For thus says the Lord to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.
Give ear, and hear my voice; give attention, and hear my speech.
When he has leveled its surface, does he not scatter dill, sow cumin, and put in wheat in rows and barley in its proper place, and emmer as the border?
a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;