Isaiah 28:23-29

Isaiah 28:23-29

[23] Give ye ear,  and hear  my voice;  hearken,  and hear  my speech.  [24] Doth the plowman  all day  to sow?  doth he open  and break the clods  of his ground?  [25] When he hath made plain  the face  thereof, doth he not cast abroad  the fitches,  and scatter  the cummin,  and cast  in the principal  wheat  and the appointed  barley  and the rie  in their place?  [26] For his God  doth instruct  him to discretion,  and doth teach  [27] For the fitches  are not threshed  with a threshing instrument,  neither is a cart  wheel  turned about  upon the cummin;  but the fitches  are beaten out  with a staff,  and the cummin  with a rod.  [28] Bread  corn is bruised;  because he will not ever  be threshing  it, nor break  it with the wheel  of his cart,  nor bruise  it with his horsemen.  [29] This also cometh forth  from the LORD  of hosts,  which is wonderful  in counsel,  and excellent  in working. 

What does Isaiah 28:23-29 Mean?

Contextual Meaning

How would the leaders of Judah respond? Would they continue in their chosen course of action and so suffer the fate of the Northern Kingdom, or would they repent and experience a milder judgment? Isaiah ended this "woe" by illustrating the alternatives and urging repentance (cf. chs5-6).
"Isaiah here proves himself a master of the mashal [1]. In the usual tone of a mashal Song of Solomon , he first of all claims the attention of his audience as a teacher of wisdom." [2]