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# General Information:
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This begins a parable that ends in 28:29. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parables]])
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# Pay attention and listen to my voice; be attentive and listen to my words
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These two phrases mean basically the same thing. The second phrase is used to strengthen the first. (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-parallelism]])
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# to my voice
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Here "voice" represents what Isaiah says. AT: "to what I say" (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-metonymy]])
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# to my words
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"to my message"
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# Does a farmer who plows all day to sow, only plow the ground? Does he continually break up and harrow the field?
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Isaiah uses rhetorical questions to make the people think deeply. AT: "A farmer does not plow the ground over and over and continually work the soil without ever sowing seed." (See: [[rc://en/ta/man/translate/figs-rquestion]]) |