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Giue yee eare, and heare my voyce, hearken and heare my speach.

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

When hee hath made plaine the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principall wheate, and the appointed barly and the rye in their place?

For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheele turned about vpon the cummin: but the fitches are beaten out with a staffe, and the cummin with a rodde.

Bread corne is bruised; because he will not euer be threshing it, nor breake it with the wheele of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

This also commeth forth from the Lord of hostes, which is wonderfull in counsell, and excellent in working.