Hosea 10:11

Tree of Life Version

Though Ephraim is a trained heifer that loves to thresh, I put a yoke over her fair neck. I will make Ephraim pull; Judah will plow; Jacob will drag a harrow by himself.”

Cross References

Isaiah 28:24

Does a plowman plow all day to sow the seed? Does he continually break open and harrow his ground?

Jeremiah 28:14

For thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “I have put a yoke of iron on the neck of all these nations, so that they may serve King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. They will serve him, and I have also given him the beasts of the field.”

Jeremiah 46:20

Egypt is a beautiful heifer— but a biting fly is coming— from the north it is coming!

Jeremiah 50:11

“Because you rejoice, because you exult— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a trampling heifer and neigh like stallions,

Hosea 11:4

With human cords I was drawing them, with bonds of love, and I became to them as One lifting a yoke from their jaws. I bent down to them and fed them.

Hosea 2:5

Or else I will strip her naked and expose her as on the day she was born. Then I will make her like a wilderness. Yes, I will make her like desert land, and I will let her die of thirst.

Hosea 3:1

Then Adonai said to me: “Go again! Love a woman who is loved by a companion and committing adultery—just as Adonai has loved the Bnei-Yisrael, while they were turning to other gods and loving raisin cakes.”

Hosea 4:16

For Israel is stubborn like a stubborn cow. Now Adonai will pasture them like a lamb in the open field.

Hosea 9:1

Do not rejoice, O Israel, do not celebrate like the peoples— for so you have gone whoring away from your God. You have loved a prostitute’s pay, on every grain-threshing-floor.

Micah 4:13

Arise and tread, Daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron, and I will make your hooves bronze. You will thresh many peoples. I will devote their unjust gain to Adonai, their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

Romans 16:18

For such people do not serve our Lord the Messiah, but only their own belly. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

Deuteronomy 25:4

“You are not to muzzle the ox while it is threshing.