22. So now, stop your scoffing, lest your shackles be strengthened! For I have heard from Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot of destruction determined upon the whole land.
23. Give ear and hear my voice! Pay attention and hear my words.
24. Does a plowman plow all day to sow the seed? Does he continually break open and harrow his ground?
25. No! When he has leveled its surface, he scatters dill and sows cumin, plants wheat in rows, places barley, and rye on its border.
26. For his God teaches him judgment, instructing him.
27. For dill is not threshed with a sledge, nor is a cart wheel rolled over cumin. Rather, dill is beaten out with a staff, and cumin with a rod.
28. Bread grain is crushed, but not endlessly. Rumbling cart wheels and horses over it would only crush it to powder.
29. This also comes from Adonai-Tzva’ot: Wonderful is His counsel, great is His wisdom.