'Soil' in the Bible
I will break the pride of your power, and I will make your sky like iron, and your soil like brass;
I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading himself like a green tree in its native soil.
I have taken off my robe. Indeed, must I put it on? I have washed my feet. Indeed, must I soil them?
Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow tree.
It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.
Others fell on rocky ground, where they didn't have much soil, and immediately they sprang up, because they had no depth of earth.
Others fell on good soil, and yielded fruit: some one hundred times as much, some sixty, and some thirty.
Others fell on the rocky ground, where it had little soil, and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of soil.
He said to the vine dresser, 'Behold, these three years I have come looking for fruit on this fig tree, and found none. Cut it down. Why does it waste the soil?'
It is fit neither for the soil nor for the manure pile. It is thrown out. He who has ears to hear, let him hear."