10 Bible Verses about Metaphorical Ploughing

They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.

Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.

You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you did trust in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

The plowers plowed upon my back: they made long their furrows.

For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and you shall be tilled and sown:

And Ephraim is as a heifer that is trained, and loves to tread out the grain; but I harnessed her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to pull a plow; Judah shall plow, and Jacob must break his clods.

Micah the Moresthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spoke to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus says the LORD of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Therefore shall Zion for your sake be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the forest.

And the men of the city said unto him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said unto them, If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle.

For thus says the LORD to the men of Judah and Jerusalem, Break up your fallow ground, and sow not among thorns.