19. Each time it passes by it will take you.It will pass by morning after morning,during the day and during the night.Understanding this message brings only terror.
20. The bed is too short to stretch out on.The blanket is too narrow to serve as a cover.
21. The Lord will rise as he did on Mount Perazim.He will wake up as he did in Gibeon Valley.He will do his work, his unexpected work,and perform his deeds, his mysterious deeds.
22. Now stop laughing, or your chains will be tightened,because I have heard that the Almighty Lord of Armieshas finally determined to destroy the whole land.
23. Open your ears, and listen to me!Pay attention, and hear me!
24. Does a farmer go on plowing every day so he can plant?Does he continue to break up the soil and make furrows in the ground?
25. When he has smoothed its surface,doesn’t he scatter black cumin seed and plant cumin?Doesn’t he plant wild wheat in rows?Doesn’t he put barley in its own areaand winter wheat at its borders?
26. God will guide him in judgment,and his God will teach him.
27. Black cumin isn’t threshed with a sledge,and wagon wheels aren’t rolled over cumin.Black cumin is beaten with a rodand cumin with a stick.
28. Grain is ground into flour, but the grinding eventually stops.It will be threshed.The wheels of his cart will roll over it,but his horses won’t crush it.
29. All of this has come from the Lord of Armies.His counsel is wonderful, and his wisdom is great.