For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.
Six days let work be done, but on the seventh day take your rest: at ploughing time and at the grain-cutting you are to have a day for rest.
And they are to take the cow into a valley where there is flowing water, and which is not ploughed or planted, and there the neck of the cow is to be broken:
Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.
Then on the seventh day, before he went into the bride's room, the men of the town said to him, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? And he said to them, If you had not been ploughing with my cow you would not have got the answer to my question.
And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.
But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;
For they had instruments for putting an edge on their ploughs and blades and forks and axes, and for putting iron points on their ox-driving rods.
So he went away from there and came across Elisha, the son of Shaphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, he himself walking with the twelfth; and elijah went up to him and put his robe on him.
And that we would take the first of our rough meal, and our lifted offerings, and the fruit of every sort of tree, and wine and oil, to the priests, to the rooms of the house of our God; and the tenth of the produce of our land to the Levites; for they, the Levites, take a tenth in all the towns of our ploughed land.
And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:
What I have seen is that those by whom trouble has been ploughed, and evil planted, get the same for themselves.
If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;
Will he be pulling your plough with cords, turning up the valleys after you?
You make the ploughed lands full of water; you make smooth the slopes: you make the earth soft with showers, sending your blessing on its growth.
The ploughmen were ploughing on my back; long were the wounds they made.
Our bones are broken up at the mouth of the underworld, as the earth is broken by the plough.
There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.
The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.
By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.
And he will be the judge between the nations, and the peoples will be ruled by his decisions: and their swords will be turned into plough-blades, and their spears into vine-knives: no longer will the nations be turning their swords against one another, and the knowledge of war will be gone for ever.
Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.
Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?
And the oxen and the young asses which are used for ploughing, will have salted grain which has been made free from the waste with fork and basket.
And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.
For this is what the Lord says to the men of Judah and to Jerusalem: Get your unworked land ploughed up, do not put in your seeds among thorns.
Micah the Morashtite, who was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Zion will become like a ploughed field, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the woodland.
For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:
Their words are foolish; they make agreements with false oaths, so punishment will come up like a poison-plant in a ploughed field.
And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.
Put in the seed of righteousness, get in your grain in mercy, let your unploughed earth be turned up: for it is time to make search for the Lord, till he comes and sends righteousness on you like rain.
You have been ploughing sin, you have got in a store of evil, the fruit of deceit has been your food: for you put faith in your way, in the number of your men of war.
In gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.
Get your plough-blades hammered into swords, and your vine-knives into spears: let the feeble say, I am strong.
Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?
See, the days will come, says the Lord, when the ploughman will overtake him who is cutting the grain, and the crusher of the grapes him who is planting seed; and sweet wine will be dropping from the mountains, and the hills will be turned into streams of wine.
For this reason, Zion will be ploughed like a field because of you, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like a high place in the woods.
And he will be judge between great peoples, and strong nations far away will be ruled by his decisions; their swords will be hammered into plough-blades and their spears into vine-knives: nations will no longer be lifting up their swords against one another, and knowledge of war will have gone for ever.
But Jesus said, No man, having put his hand to the plough and looking back, is good enough for the kingdom of God.
But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal,
Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.
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