[ It is] in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.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.
O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she[ is] the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.