10. I came and I chastised them;Peoples will be gathered against themwhen I bind them to their two crimes.
11. Ephraim was a trained heifer,that loved to thresh;I myself laid a yokeupon her beautiful neck;I will make Ephraim break ground, Judah must plow,Jacob must harrow for himself:
12. “Sow for yourselves justice,reap the reward of loyalty;Break up for yourselves a new field,for it is time to seek the Lord,till he comes and rains justice upon you.”
13. But you have plowed wickedness,reaped perversity,and eaten the fruit of falsehood.Because you have trusted in your own power,and in your many warriors,