Is the wild ox willing to be your servant? Will it spend the night at your feeding trough?
Can you bind the wild ox to a furrow with its rope, will it till the valleys, following after you?
It ranges the hills as its pasture, and searches after every green plant.
Rescue me from the mouth of the lion, and from the horns of the wild oxen! You have answered me!
He makes Lebanon skip like a calf and Sirion like a young ox.
You exalt my horn like that of a wild ox. I am covered with fresh oil.
An ox recognizes its owner, a donkey recognizes where its owner puts its food; but Israel does not recognize me, my people do not understand.”
Wild oxen will be slaughtered along with them, as well as strong bulls. Their land is drenched with blood, their soil is covered with fat.
God brought them out of Egypt. They have, as it were, the strength of a wild bull.
May the firstborn of his bull bring him honor, and may his horns be those of a wild ox; with them may he gore all peoples, all the far reaches of the earth. They are the ten thousands of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.