TSK · Hosea 10:11

You must not muzzle your ox when it is treading grain.

Does a farmer just keep on plowing at planting time? Does he keep breaking up and harrowing his ground?

For their mother has committed adultery; she who conceived them has acted shamefully. For she said,“I will seek out my lovers; they are the ones who give me my bread and my water, my wool, my flax, my olive oil, and my wine.

Israel has rebelled like a stubborn heifer! Soon the LORD will put them out to pasture like a lamb in a broad field!

I led them with leather cords, with leather ropes; I lifted the yoke from their neck, and gently fed them.