Doth the plowman plow continually to sow? doth he continually 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 pluck up that which is planted;
Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.
When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the appointed place and the spelt in the border thereof?
For thus saith the LORD to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.