Ephraim is a well-trained heifer that loves to thresh; but I will place a yoke on her fair neck. I will harness Ephraim, Judah will plow, and Jacob will break the hard ground.
For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?
“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treadi
Do not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain.
Then the LORD said to me, “Go show love to your wife again, though she is loved by another and is an adulteress. Love he
For such people are not serving our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery they deceive the h
Do not rejoice, O Israel, with exultation like the nations, for you have played the harlot against your God; you have ma
I led them with cords of kindness, with ropes of love; I lifted the yoke from their necks and bent down to feed them.
Does the plowman plow for planting every day? Does he continuously loosen and harrow the soil?
For their mother has played the harlot and has conceived them in disgrace. For she thought, ‘I will go after my lovers,
So the LORD his God delivered Ahaz into the hand of the king of Aram, who attacked him and took many captives to Damascu