Isaiah 28:24

Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?

Jeremiah 4:3

For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.

Hosea 10:11-12

And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.

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Summary

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

Bible References

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Jeremiah 4:3
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.
Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.

Basic English, produced by Mr C. K. Ogden of the Orthological Institute - public domain