22. Now therefore don’t be scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for I have heard a decree of destruction from the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, on the whole earth.
23. Give ear, and hear my voice! Listen, and hear my speech!
24. Does he who plows to sow plow continually? Does he keep turning the soil and breaking the clods?
25. When he has leveled its surface, doesn’t he plant the dill, and scatter the cumin seed, and put in the wheat in rows, the barley in the appointed place, and the spelt in its place?
26. For his God instructs him in right judgment, and teaches him.