Isaiah 28:24

28:24 Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time?

Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

Isaiah 65:3

65:3 These people continually and blatantly offend me

as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards

and burn incense on brick altars.


tn Heb “All the day does the plowman plow in order to plant?” The phrase “all the day” here has the sense of “continually, always.” See BDB 400 s.v. יוֹם.

tn Heb “the people who provoke me to anger to my face continually.”

tn Or “gardens” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

tn Or perhaps, “on tiles.”