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 pull up what is planted;
Give ear and hear my voice; listen, and hear my speech.
When he has made the face of it level, does he not cast out the dill and scatter the cummin, and throw in the choice wheat and the chosen barley and the spelt in its border?
For so says Jehovah to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and do not sow among thorns.