Isaiah 28 · Verse 24

Isaiah 28:24

Doth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?
Isaiah 28:24, King James Version

Isaiah 28:24 in other translations

BSBDoes the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
WEBDoes he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
ASVDoth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?
YLTThe whole day plougheth the ploughman to sow? He openeth and harroweth his ground!
DARBYDoth the ploughman plough all day to sow? Is he all day opening and breaking the clods of his land?
BBEIs the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?
WebsterDoth the plowman plow all day to sow? doth he open and break the clods of his ground?

What does Isaiah 28:24 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
24. all day--emphatic; he is not always ploughing: he also "sows," and that, too, in accordance with sure rules (Is 28:25). doth he open--supply "always." Is he always harrowing?

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Isaiah 28:23-29

The husbandman applies to his calling with pains and prudence, in all the works of it according to their nature. Thus the Lord, who has given men this wisdom, is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in his working. As the occasion requires, he threatens, corrects, spares, shows mercy, or executes vengeance. Afflictions are God's threshing instruments, to loosen us from the world, to part between us and our chaff, and…

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Isaiah 28:24 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הֲכֹ֣לha.Khol¿ allH3605
הַיּ֔וֹםhai.Yomthe dayH3117
יַחֲרֹ֥שׁya.cha.Roshdoes he plowH2790
הַחֹרֵ֖שׁha.cho.Reshthe plowmanH2790
לִזְרֹ֑עַliz.Ro.a'to sowH2232
יְפַתַּ֥חye.fa.Tachdoes he loosen?H6605
וִֽישַׂדֵּ֖דvi.sa.Dedand he may harrow?H7702
אַדְמָתֽוֹ\׃'ad.ma.Toland hisH127

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Isaiah 28:24

  • Hosea 10:11-12

    And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods. Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.

  • Jeremiah 4:3

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

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Jer 4:3; Ho 10:11,12

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Context

  • Isaiah 28:23

    Give ye ear, and hear my voice; hearken, and hear my speech.

  • Isaiah 28:24

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

  • Isaiah 28:25

    When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

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Isaiah 28:24 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		El que ara para sembrar, ¿arará todo el día; romperá y quebrará los terrones de la tierra?
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Le laboureur laboure-t-il tout le jour pour semer? ouvre-t-il et herse-t-il tout le jour son terrain?
German
Elberfelder 1871		Pflügt wohl der Pflüger den ganzen Tag, um zu säen? Furcht und eggt er den ganzen Tag sein Ackerland?
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Numquid tota die arabit arans ut serat? proscindet et sarriet humum suam?