¹⁰ Can you hold it to the furrow with a harness?^(A)
    Will it till the valleys behind you?

¹⁰ When I please, I will punish^(A) them;
    nations will be gathered against them
    to put them in bonds for their double sin.
¹¹ Ephraim is a trained heifer
    that loves to thresh;
so I will put a yoke^(B)
    on her fair neck.
I will drive Ephraim,
    Judah must plow,
    and Jacob must break up the ground.

⁵ Can you make a pet of it like a bird
    or put it on a leash for the young women in your house?

⁷ It laughs^(A) at the commotion in the town;
    it does not hear a driver’s shout.^(B)

⁵ “Who let the wild donkey^(A) go free?
    Who untied its ropes?