19. As often as it passes through it shall take you, for it shall pass through every morning, and by day and by night. And it shall be only trembling to understand the message.”
20. For the bed shall be too short for a man to stretch out on, and the covering shall be too narrow to wrap himself in it.
21. For יהוה rises up as at Mount Peratsim, and He is wroth as at the Valley of Giḇ‛on, to do His work, His strange work, and to do His deed, His strange deed.
22. And now, do not be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong. For I have heard from the Master יהוה of hosts, a destruction decreed upon all the earth.
23. Give ear and hear my voice, listen and hear my Word.
24. Does the ploughman keep ploughing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
25. When he has levelled its surface, does he not sow the caraway and scatter the cummin, plant the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
26. For He instructs him for right-ruling, his Elohim teaches him.
27. For caraway is not threshed with a threshing sledge, nor is a wagon wheel rolled over cummin, but caraway is beaten out with a stick, and cummin with a rod.
28. Grain is crushed, so one does not go on threshing it forever, nor break it with his wagon wheel, nor crush it with his horsemen.
29. Even this has come from יהוה of hosts, who did wonders in counsel, who made wisdom great.