Hosea 10:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Ephraim was a trained heifer, that loved to thresh; I myself laid a yoke upon her beautiful neck; I will make Ephraim break ground, Judah must plow, Jacob must harrow for himself:

Cross References

Hosea 4:16

For like a stubborn cow, Israel is stubborn; Will the Lord now pasture them, like lambs in a broad meadow?

Jeremiah 50:11

Yes, rejoice and exult, you that plunder my heritage; Frisk like calves on the grass, neigh like stallions!

Deuteronomy 25:4

You shall not muzzle an ox when it treads out grain. Levirate Marriage.

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord Christ but their own appetites, and by fair and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the innocent.

Hosea 11:4

I drew them with human cords, with bands of love; I fostered them like those who raise an infant to their cheeks; I bent down to feed them.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, Israel, do not exult like the nations! For you have prostituted yourself, abandoning your God, loving a prostitute’s fee upon every threshing floor.

Hosea 3:1

Again the Lord said to me: Go, love a woman who is loved by her spouse but commits adultery; Just as the Lord loves the Israelites, though they turn to other gods and love raisin cakes.

Hosea 2:5

Or I will strip her naked, leaving her as on the day of her birth; I will make her like the wilderness, make her like an arid land, and let her die of thirst.

Isaiah 28:24

Is the plowman forever plowing in order to sow, always loosening and harrowing the field?

Jeremiah 28:14

For thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: A yoke of iron I have placed on the necks of all these nations serving Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and they shall serve him; even the wild animals I have given him.

Jeremiah 46:20

Egypt is a beautiful heifer, a horsefly from the north keeps coming.

Micah 4:13

Arise and thresh, O daughter Zion; your horn I will make iron And your hoofs I will make bronze, that you may crush many peoples; You shall devote their spoils to the Lord, their riches to the Lord of the whole earth.