Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till he comes and rains righteousness upon you.
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for you have turned justice into bitterness, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
Now no discipline for the present seems to be joyful, but painful: nevertheless afterwards it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.