Isaiah 28 · Verse 25

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?

Isaiah 28:25, King James Version

Isaiah 28:25 in other translations

BSB	When he has leveled its surface, does he not sow caraway and scatter cumin? He plants wheat in rows and barley in plots, and rye within its border.
WEB	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?
ASV	When he hath levelled the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows, and the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in the border thereof?
YLT	Hath he not, if he have made level its face, Then scattered fitches, and cummin sprinkle, And hath placed the principal wheat, And the appointed barley, And the rie in its own border?
DARBY	Doth he not, when he hath levelled the face thereof, cast abroad dill, and scatter cummin, and set the wheat in rows, and the barley in an appointed place, and the rye in its border?
BBE	When the face of the earth has been levelled, does he not put in the different sorts of seed, and the grain in lines, and the barley in its place, and the spelt at the edge?
Webster	When he hath made even the face of it, doth he not cast abroad the vetches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat, and the appointed barley, and the rye in their place?

What does Isaiah 28:25 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

25. face--the "surface" of the ground: "made plain," or level, by harrowing. fitches--rather, "dill," or "fennel"; Nigella romana, with black seed, easily beaten out, used as a condiment and medicine in the East. So the Septuagint, "cummin" was used in the same way. cast in ... principal wheat--rather, plant the wheat in rows (for wheat was thought to yield the largest crop, by being planted sparingly [Pliny, Natural History, 18.21]); [Maurer]; "sow the wheat regularly" [Horsley]. But Gesenius, like English Version, "fat," or "principal," that is, excellent wheat. appointed barley--rather, "barley in its appointed place" [Maurer]. in their place--rather, "in its (the field's) border" [Maurer].

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 28:25 in the original Hebrew

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הֲלוֹא֙ha.lO'¿ notH3808

אִם\־'im-ifH518

שִׁוָּ֣הshi.Vahhe has leveledH7737

פָנֶ֔יהָfa.Nei.hasurface itsH6440

וְהֵפִ֥יץve.he.Fitzand does he scatterH6327

קֶ֖צַחKe.tzachblack cuminH7100

וְכַמֹּ֣ןve.kha.Monand cuminH3646

יִזְרֹ֑קyiz.Rokdoes he sprinkle?H2236

וְשָׂ֨םve.Samand does he put?H7760

חִטָּ֤הchi.TahwheatH2406

שׂוֹרָה֙so.Raha rowH7795

וּשְׂעֹרָ֣הu.se.'o.Rahand barleyH8184

נִסְמָ֔ןnis.Manan appointed [place]H5567

וְכֻסֶּ֖מֶתve.khu.Se.metand speltH3698

גְּבֻלָתֽוֹ\׃ge.vu.la.Toterritory itsH1367

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

Cross references for Isaiah 28:25

Ezekiel 4:9
Take thou also unto thee wheat, and barley, and beans, and lentiles, and millet, and fitches, and put them in one vessel, and make thee bread thereof, according to the number of the days that thou shalt lie upon thy side, three hundred and ninety days shalt thou eat thereof.
Matthew 23:23
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
Exodus 9:31-32
And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled. But the wheat and the rie were not smitten: for they were not grown up.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

in the principal, etc. or, the wheat in the principal place,and the barley in the appointed place. rye. or, spelt.
Ex 9:31,32; Eze 4:9
place. Heb. border.

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Context

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?
Isaiah 28:26
For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

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Isaiah 28:25 in other languages

Spanish Reina-Valera 1909	Después que hubiere igualado su superficie, ¿no derramará la neguilla, sembrará el comino, pondrá el trigo por su orden, y la cebada en su señal, y la avena en su término?
French Bible J.N. Darby 1885	N’est-ce pas que, lorsqu’il en a aplani la surface, il répand l’aneth, et sème le cumin, et met le froment par rangées, et l’orge au lieu désigné, et l’épeautre dans ses limites?
German Elberfelder 1871	Ist es nicht so? wenn er dessen Fläche geebnet hat, so streut er Dill und sät Kümmel, und wirft Weizen reihenweise, und Gerste auf das abgesteckte Stück, und den Spelt an seinen Rand.
Latin Clementine Vulgate	Nonne cum adæquaverit faciem ejus, seret gith et cyminum sparget? et ponet triticum per ordinem, et hordeum, et milium, et viciam in finibus suis?