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10 Can you tie it in the furrow with ropes,
    or will it harrow the valleys after you?

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13 Harness the steeds to the chariots,
    inhabitants of Lachish;
it was the beginning of sin
    to daughter Zion,
for in you were found
    the transgressions of Israel.(A)

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10 I will come[a] against the wayward people to punish them,
    and nations shall be gathered against them
    when they are punished[b] for their double iniquity.(A)

11 Ephraim was a trained heifer
    that loved to thresh,
    and I spared her fair neck,
but I will make Ephraim break the ground;
    Judah must plow;
    Jacob must harrow for himself.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 10.10 Cn Compare Gk: Heb In my desire
  2. 10.10 Gk: Heb bound

The plowers plowed on my back;
    they made their furrows long.

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Will you play with it as with a bird
    or put it on a leash for your young women?

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It scorns the tumult of the city;
    it does not hear the shouts of the driver.

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“Who has let the wild ass go free?
    Who has loosed the bonds of the swift ass,(A)

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14 a messenger came to Job and said, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were feeding beside them,

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