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Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bands be made strong; for an extermination wholly determined have I heard from the L-rd, the GOD of hosts, upon the whole land.
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Give ye ear, and hear my voice; attend, and hear my speech.
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Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground?
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When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the black cummin, and scatter the cummin, and put in the wheat in rows and the barley in the appointed place and the spelt in the border thereof?
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For He doth instruct him aright; his G-d doth teach him.
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For the black cummin is not threshed with a threshing-sledge, neither is a cart-wheel turned about upon the cummin; but the black cummin is beaten out with a staff, and the cummin with a rod.
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Is bread corn crushed? Nay, he will not ever be threshing it; and though the roller of his wagon and its sharp edges move noisily, he doth not crush it.
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This also cometh forth from HaShem of hosts: Wonderful is His counsel, and great His wisdom.