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Listen and hear my voice, Pay attention and hear my words.

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

Does the farmer plow continually to plant seed? Does he continually turn and break up his ground?

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

Does he not level its surface And sow dill and scatter cumin And plant wheat in rows, Barley in its place and rye within its area?

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?

For his God instructs and teaches him properly.

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

For dill is not threshed with a threshing sledge, Nor is the cartwheel driven over cumin; But dill is beaten out with a rod, and cumin with a club.

For the fitches are not threshed with a threshing instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the fitches are beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.

Grain for bread is crushed, Indeed, he does not continue to thresh it forever. Because the wheel of his cart and his horses eventually damage it, He does not thresh it longer.

Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

This also comes from the LORD of armies, Who has made His counsel wonderful and His wisdom great.

This also cometh forth from the Lord of hosts, which is wonderful in counsel, and excellent in working.