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20 For the bed is too short to stretch Break it with his cartwheel,
out on, Or crush it with his horsemen.
And the covering so narrow that one 29 This also comes from the LORD of hosts,
cannot wrap himself in it. Who is wonderful in counsel and
21 For the LORD will rise up as at Mount excellent in guidance.
Perazim,
He will be angry as in the Valley of Psalm 107:33–43
Gibeon— 33 He turns rivers into a wilderness,
That He may do His work, His And the watersprings into dry ground;
awesome work, 34 A fruitful land into barrenness,
And bring to pass His act, His unusual For the wickedness of those who dwell
act. in it.
22 Now therefore, do not be mockers, 35 He turns a wilderness into pools of
Lest your bonds be made strong; water,
For I have heard from the Lord GOD of And dry land into watersprings.
hosts, 36 There He makes the hungry dwell,
A destruction determined even upon That they may establish a city for a
the whole earth. dwelling place,
37 And sow fields and plant vineyards,
That they may yield a fruitful harvest.
38 He also blesses them, and they
multiply greatly;
28:23 Give ear. The parable of a farmer under-
lined the lessons of judgment threats in vv. And He does not let their cattle
18–22. As the farmer does his different tasks, decrease.
each in the right season and proportion, so 39 When they are diminished and
God adopts His measures to His purposes: brought low
now mercy, then judgment; punishing sooner, Through oppression, affliction, and
then later. His purpose was not to destroy His sorrow,
people, any more than the farmer’s object in 40
his threshing or plowing is to destroy his crop. He pours contempt on princes,
And causes them to wander in the
wilderness where there is no way;
41 Yet He sets the poor on high, far from
Give ear and hear my voice, affliction,
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Listen and hear my speech. And makes their families like a flock.
Does the plowman keep plowing all 42 The righteous see it and rejoice,
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day to sow? And all iniquity stops its mouth.
Does he keep turning his soil and 43
breaking the clods? Whoever is wise will observe these
25 When he has leveled its surface, things,
Does he not sow the black cummin And they will understand the
And scatter the cummin, lovingkindness of the LORD.
Plant the wheat in rows, Proverbs 25:20
The barley in the appointed place,
20 Like one who takes away a garment in
And the spelt in its place?
For He instructs him in right
26 cold weather,
judgment, And like vinegar on soda,
His God teaches him. Is one who sings songs to a heavy
heart.
27 For the black cummin is not threshed
with a threshing sledge,
Nor is a cartwheel rolled over the
cummin;
But the black cummin is beaten out 25:20 vinegar on soda.Pouring vinegar on an
with a stick, alkali (e.g., baking soda) produces a reaction
And the cummin with a rod. like boiling or turning tranquility into agita-
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Bread flour must be ground; tion. So is the effect of singing joyful songs
Therefore he does not thresh it without sympathy to the sorrowful.
forever,

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