Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

They were silent and did not respond, for the king had ordered, “Don’t respond to him.”

“Listen to me in silence, you coastlands! Let the nations find renewed strength! Let them approach and then speak; let us come together for debate!

“I have been inactive for a long time; I kept quiet and held back. Like a woman in labor I groan; I pant and gasp.

A carpenter takes measurements; he marks out an outline of its form; he scrapes it with chisels, and marks it with a compass. He patterns it after the human form, like a well-built human being, and puts it in a shrine.