¹⁰ Can you bind the wild ox in the furrow with ropes?
Or will he plow the valleys behind you?

¹³ O inhabitant of ^(A)Lachish,
Harness the chariot to the swift steeds
(She was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion),
For the transgressions of Israel were ^(B)found in you.

¹⁰ When it is My desire, I will chasten them.
^(A)Peoples shall be gathered against them
When I bind them ^[a]for their two transgressions.
¹¹ Ephraim is ^(B)a trained heifer
That loves to thresh grain;
But I harnessed her fair neck,
I will make Ephraim ^[b]pull a plow.
Judah shall plow;
Jacob shall break his clods.”

³ The plowers plowed on my back;
They made their furrows long.”

⁵ Will you play with him as with a bird,
Or will you leash him for your maidens?