22. Now therefore, do not continue as mockers,lest your bonds be made stronger;for I have heard from the Lord God of Hostsof determined destruction upon the whole earth.
23. Give ear and hear my voice;listen and hear my speech.
24. Does the plowman plow all day to sow?Does he continually turn and break the clods of his ground?
25. Does he not level its surfaceand sow dill and scatter the cuminand plant wheat in rows,barley in its placeand the rye within its area?
26. For his God instructsand teaches him appropriately.
27. For the dill is not threshed with a threshing instrument,nor is a cartwheel driven over the cumin;but the dill is beaten out with a staff,and the cumin with a rod.
28. Grain for bread is crushed;so he does not continue to thresh it forever,nor break it with the wheel of his cart,nor crush it with his horsemen.
29. This also comes from the Lord of Hosts,who is wonderful in counsel and excellent in wisdom.