Can you bind him in the furrow with ropes, or will he harrow the valleys after you?
Harness the steeds to the chariots, inhabitants of Lachish; it was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion, for in you were found the transgressions of Israel.
When I please, I will discipline them, and nations shall be gathered against them when they are bound up for their double iniquity. Ephraim was a trained calf that loved to thresh, and I spared her fair neck; but I will put Ephraim to the yoke; Judah must plow; Jacob must harrow for himself.
The plowers plowed upon my back; they made long their furrows.”
Will you play with him as with a bird, or will you put him on a leash for your girls?
He scorns the tumult of the city; he hears not the shouts of the driver.
“Who has let the wild donkey go free? Who has loosed the bonds of the swift donkey,
and there came a messenger to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys feeding beside them,
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