²² God, who brought them out of Egypt,
    is like a magnificent wild bull for him.

⁸ God, who brought him from Egypt,
    is like a magnificent wild bull for him.
He will devour enemy nations
    and break their bones;
    he will strike with his arrows.

¹⁷ A firstborn bull^[a]—that’s how majestic he is!
    A wild ox’s horns—those are his horns!
        With them he gores all peoples
        completely, to the far ends of the earth!
His horns^[b] are Ephraim’s tens of thousands.
    His horns are Manasseh’s thousands.”

⁹ Will the wild ox agree to be your slave,
    or will it spend the night in your crib?
¹⁰ Can you bind it with a rope to a plowed row;
    will it plow the valley behind you?