Hosea 10:11
Ephraim was once like a well-trained young cow, ready and willing to thresh grain. But I will put a yoke on her beautiful neck and harness her for harder work. I made Judah pull the plow and Jacob pull the harrow.
Deuteronomy 25:4
Do not muzzle the bull while he is threshing.
Jeremiah 50:11
You are happy and excited. You have looted the people who belong to me. You dance around like calves on the grass and neigh like stallions.
Hosea 4:16
For Israel behaved stubbornly like a stubborn heifer. Will Jehovah now feed them as a lamb in a large place.
2 Chronicles 28:5-8
Jehovah his God handed him over to the king of Aram, who defeated him, captured many prisoners, and brought them to Damascus. He also handed him over to the king of Israel, who decisively defeated him.
Isaiah 28:24
Does the plowman keep plowing all day in order to sow seed? Does he keep turning his soil and breaking the clods?
Hosea 2:5
Their mother played the harlot. She that conceived them acted shamefully! For she said, I will go after my lovers, who give me my bread and my water, my wool and my flax, my oil and my drink.
Hosea 3:1
Jehovah said to me: Go again and love a woman beloved by her friend. Love an adulteress, even as Jehovah loves the children of Israel. Though they turn to other gods, and love cakes of raisins for feasts.
Hosea 9:1
O Israel, do not rejoice. Do not celebrate as pagan nations do. You have been unfaithful to your God. You have sold sex on every threshing floor.
Hosea 11:4
I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love. I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them.
Romans 16:18
They do not serve our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the unaware.