Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? does he keep opening and breaking 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 ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
When he has made level the face of it, does he not sow the dill, and scatter the cummin, and plant the wheat in rows and the barley and the spelt in their places?
For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.