Hosea 10:11

Good News Translation

“Israel was once like a well-trained young cow, ready and willing to thresh grain. But I decided to put a yoke on her beautiful neck and to harness her for harder work. I made Judah pull the plow and Israel pull the harrow.

Cross References

Isaiah 28:24

Farmers don't constantly plow their fields and keep getting them ready for planting.

Jeremiah 28:14

The Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, has said that he will put an iron yoke on all these nations and that they will serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia. The Lord has said that he will make even the wild animals serve Nebuchadnezzar.”

Jeremiah 46:20

Egypt is like a splendid cow, attacked by a stinging fly from the north.

Jeremiah 50:11

The Lord says, “People of Babylonia, you plundered my nation. You are happy and glad, going about like a cow threshing grain or like a neighing horse,

Hosea 11:4

I drew them to me with affection and love. I picked them up and held them to my cheek; I bent down to them and fed them.

Hosea 3:1

The Lord said to me, “Go again and show your love for a woman who is committing adultery with a lover. You must love her just as I still love the people of Israel, even though they turn to other gods and like to take offerings of raisins to idols.”

Hosea 4:16

The people of Israel are as stubborn as mules. How can I feed them like lambs in a meadow?

Hosea 9:1

People of Israel, stop celebrating your festivals like pagans. You have turned away from your God and have been unfaithful to him. All over the land you have sold yourselves like prostitutes to the god Baal and have loved the grain you thought he paid you with!

Micah 4:13

The Lord says, “People of Jerusalem, go and punish your enemies! I will make you as strong as a bull with iron horns and bronze hoofs. You will crush many nations, and the wealth they got by violence you will present to me, the Lord of the whole world.”

Romans 16:18

For those who do such things are not serving Christ our Lord, but their own appetites. By their fine words and flattering speech they deceive innocent people.

Deuteronomy 25:4

“Do not muzzle an ox when you are using it to thresh grain.