16 For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn cow.(A)
Can the Lord now shepherd them
like a lamb in an open meadow?(B)

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16 The Israelites are stubborn,(A)
    like a stubborn heifer.(B)
How then can the Lord pasture them
    like lambs(C) in a meadow?

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16 For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

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11 Ephraim is a well-trained calf(A)
that loves to thresh,
but I will place a yoke on[a] her fine neck.(B)
I will harness Ephraim;(C)
Judah will plow;
Jacob will do the final plowing.

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Footnotes

  1. 10:11 Lit will pass over

11 Ephraim is a trained heifer
    that loves to thresh;
so I will put a yoke(A)
    on her fair neck.
I will drive Ephraim,
    Judah must plow,
    and Jacob must break up the ground.

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11 And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

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