Isaiah 28:24

28:24 Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? ¹ 

Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

Isaiah 65:3

65:3 These people continually and blatantly offend me ² 

as they sacrifice in their sacred orchards ³ 

and burn incense on brick altars. ⁴ 

[28:24]  ¹ 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.

[65:3]  ² tn Heb “the people who provoke me to anger to my face continually.”

[65:3]  ³ tn Or “gardens” (KJV, NASB, NIV, NRSV, NLT).

[65:3]  ⁴ tn Or perhaps, “on tiles.”