Parallel Verses
World English Bible
Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
New American Standard Bible
Does he continually
King James Version
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
Holman Bible
Does he continuously break up and cultivate the soil?
International Standard Version
Does he who plows for sowing plow all the time? Does he keep on breaking up and harrowing his field?
A Conservative Version
Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he [continually] open and harrow his ground?
American Standard Version
Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?
Amplified
Does the farmer plow all day to plant seed?
Does he continually dig furrows and harrow his ground [after it is prepared]?
Bible in Basic English
Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?
Darby Translation
Doth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he all day opening and breaking the clods of his land?
Julia Smith Translation
Shall he ploughing, plough all the day to sow? shall he open and level his earth?
King James 2000
Does the plowman keep plowing all day to sow? does he keep opening and breaking the clods of his ground?
Lexham Expanded Bible
Is it all day [that] the plowman plows, opens to sow seed, harrows his ground?
Modern King James verseion
Does the plowman plow all day to sow? Does he open and break the clods of his ground?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Goeth not the husbandman ever in due season earnestly to his land? He moweth and ploweth his ground to sow.
NET Bible
Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?
New Heart English Bible
Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
The Emphasized Bible
All day long, doth the plowman plow for sowing? Doth he continue laying open and harrowing his soil?
Webster
Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
Youngs Literal Translation
The whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!
Themes
Agriculture or husbandry » Operations in » Harrowing
Topics
Interlinear
Charash
Charash
Yowm
Pathach
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Isaiah 28:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Parable Of Yahweh's Work
23 Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech! 24 Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods? 25 When he has leveled its surface, doesn't he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
Phrases
Cross References
Jeremiah 4:3
For thus says Yahweh to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem, "Break up your fallow ground, and don't sow among thorns.
Hosea 10:11-12
Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh; so I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck. I will set a rider on Ephraim. Judah will plow. Jacob will break his clods.