Quotes about Plowing
Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.
— Frederick Douglass
For the famine has covered the land these two years, and there will be five more years without plowing or harvesting.
— Genesis 45:6
Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even in the seasons of plowing and harvesting, you must rest.
— Exodus 34:21
bring the heifer to a valley with running water that has not been plowed or sown, and break its neck there by the stream.
— Deuteronomy 21:4
So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.
— 1 Kings 19:19
a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
— Job 1:14
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
— Psalm 141:7
Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
— Isaiah 28:24
For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
— Jeremiah 4:3
Sow for yourselves righteousness and reap the fruit of loving devotion; break up your unplowed ground. For it is time to seek the LORD until He comes and sends righteousness upon you like rain.
— Hosea 10:12
You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,
— Hosea 10:13
Which of you whose servant comes in from plowing or shepherding in the field will say to him, ‘Come at once and sit down to eat’?
— Luke 17:7