Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is a heifer well broken, that loveth to thresh, and I have passed over upon her fair neck; I will make Ephraim to ride, Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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Deuteronomy 25:4Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.
Isaiah 28:24Is the plowman never done with plowing to sow, with the opening and harrowing of his ground?
Hosea 2:5(2-7) For their mother hath played the harlot, she that conceived them hath done shamefully; for she said: 'I will go after my lovers, that give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, mine oil and my drink.'
Hosea 4:16For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn heifer; now shall the LORD feed them as a lamb in a large place?
Hosea 11:4I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love; and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I fed them gently.
Matthew Henry on Hosea 10:10-15
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 730.) 9 O Israel, thou hast sinned from the days of Gibeah: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them. 10 It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows. 11 And Ephraim is as a heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob… Read the whole commentary →