⁹ Do not be like the horse or the mule,
    which have no understanding
but must be controlled by bit and bridle^(A)
    or they will not come to you.

²² “My people are fools;^(A)
    they do not know me.^(B)
They are senseless children;
    they have no understanding.^(C)
They are skilled in doing evil;^(D)
    they know not how to do good.”^(E)

¹¹ who teaches^(A) us^(B) more than he teaches^[a] the beasts of the earth
    and makes us wiser than^[b] the birds in the sky?’

⁶ I have listened^(A) attentively,
    but they do not say what is right.
None of them repent^(B) of their wickedness,
    saying, “What have I done?”
Each pursues their own course^(C)
    like a horse charging into battle.
⁷ Even the stork in the sky
    knows her appointed seasons,
and the dove, the swift and the thrush
    observe the time of their migration.
But my people do not know^(D)
    the requirements of the Lord.

¹⁸ “I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning:
    ‘You disciplined^(A) me like an unruly calf,^(B)
    and I have been disciplined.
Restore^(C) me, and I will return,
    because you are the Lord my God.