Hosea 10:11 - The Scriptures 1998

¹¹ “And Ephrayim is a trained heifer, loving to thresh grain. But I Myself shall pass over her comely neck – I put Ephrayim to the yoke, Yehuḏ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ And Ephraim is as an 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 shall break his clods.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ Ephraim indeed is a heifer broken in and loving to tread out the grain, but I have [heretofore] spared the beauty of her fair neck. I will now set a rider upon Ephraim and make him to draw; Judah shall plow and Jacob shall break his clods.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ And Ephraim is a heifer that is taught, that loveth to tread out the grain; but I have passed over upon her fair neck: I will set a rider on Ephraim; Judah shall plow, Jacob shall break his clods.

Common English Bible

¹¹ Ephraim was a trained cow that loved to pull a plow; I spared her fair neck; but I will make Ephraim break through the ground; Judah will plow; Jacob will turn the soil for himself.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Ephraim is a heifer that has been taught to love treading out the grain, but I passed over the beauty of her neck. I will rise over Ephraim. Judah will plough; Jacob will break up the soil for himself.

Hosea 10:11 Cross References

Isaiah 28:24

Does the ploughman keep ploughing all day to sow? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?

Jeremiah 28:14

‘For thus said יהוה  of hosts, the Elohim of Yisra’ĕ

Jeremiah 46:20

“Mitsrayim is like a very pretty heifer, but destruction comes, it comes from the north.

Jeremiah 50:11

“Because you were glad, because you rejoiced, you who plunder My inheritance, because you have grown fat like a heifer threshing grain, and you neigh like stallions,

Hosea 11:4

“I drew them with ropes of man, with cords of love, and I was to them as those who take the yoke from their neck. And I bent down, fed them.

Hosea 2:5

“For their mother has whored, she who conceived them has acted shamelessly. For she said, ‘I go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my linen, my oil and my drink.’

Hosea 3:1

Then יהוה  said to me, “Go again, love a woman loved by a friend, and an adulteress, according to the love of יהוה  for the children of Yisra’ĕ

Hosea 4:16

“For Yisra’ĕ

Hosea 9:1

O Yisra’ĕ

Micah 4:13

“Arise and thresh, O daughter of Tsiyon, for I make your horn iron and your hooves bronze. And you shall beat many peoples into pieces, and I shall seclude their gain to יהוה, and their wealth to the Master of all the earth.”

Romans 16:18

For such ones do not serve our Master יהושע  Messiah, but their own stomach, and by smooth words and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Deuteronomy 25:4

“Do not muzzle an ox while it is threshing.