Listen and Hear

23 Listen and hear my voice.

Pay attention and hear what I say.

24 Does the plowman plow for planting every day?

Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?

25 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.

26 For his God instructs

and teaches him properly.

27 Surely caraway is not threshed with a sledge,

and the wheel of a cart is not rolled over the cumin.

But caraway is beaten out with a stick,

and cumin with a rod.

28 Grain for bread must be ground,

but it is not endlessly threshed.

Though the wheels of the cart roll over it,

the horses do not crush it.

29 This also comes from the LORD of Hosts,

who is wonderful in counsel

and excellent in wisdom.