Isaiah 28:24

Is it all day [that] the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?

Jeremiah 4:3

For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up for yourselves prepared virgin soil, and you must not sow among thornbushes.

Hosea 10:11-12

Ephraim [was] a trained heifer, that loved to thresh [grain], and I myself {spared} the fairness of her neck; I will make Ephraim break the ground, Judah will plow, Jacob must till for himself.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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

Bible References

Break

Jeremiah 4:3
For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up for yourselves prepared virgin soil, and you must not sow among thornbushes.
Hosea 10:11
Ephraim [was] a trained heifer, that loved to thresh [grain], and I myself {spared} the fairness of her neck; I will make Ephraim break the ground, Judah will plow, Jacob must till for himself.