Isaiah 28:23

Give ye ear. In vs. 23-29 Isaiah sets forth a lesson drawn from the round of farm life — plowing, sowing, and threshing — but leaves the reader to interpret the parable. As there is an appropriate time for each of these agricultural processes, so the heavenly Husbandman will, at the appropriate season, deal with men (see Isa. 5:1-7; James 5:7). The scoffers (Isa. 28:14, 21, 22) would be wise not to deceive themselves into thinking that the time of harvest can be postponed indefinitely. God deals with men according to their individual needs, now in judgment, now in mercy, but always with each according to what is best for him (see DA 224, 330; MB 150).