Isaiah 28:22-29

English Standard Version

²²Now therefore do not ^(A)scoff,
lest your bonds be made strong;
for I have heard ^(B)a decree of destruction
from the Lord God of hosts against the whole land.

²³Give ear, and hear my voice;
    give attention, and hear my speech.
²⁴Does he who plows for sowing plow continually?
    Does he continually open and harrow his ground?
²⁵^(C)When he has leveled its surface,
    does he not scatter dill, sow cumin,
and put in wheat in rows
    and barley in its proper place,
    and emmer^[a] as the border?
²⁶^(D)For he is rightly instructed;
    his God teaches him.

²⁷Dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge,
    nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin,
but dill is beaten out with a stick,
    and cumin with a rod.
²⁸Does one crush grain for bread?
    No, he does not thresh it forever;^[b]
when he drives his cart wheel over it
    with his horses, he does not crush it.
²⁹This also comes from the Lord of hosts;
    he is ^(E)wonderful in counsel
    and excellent in wisdom.