11 “Because you are glad, because you are jubilant,
You who (A)pillage My heritage,
Because you skip about [a]like a threshing (B)heifer
And neigh like [b]stallions,

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Footnotes

  1. Jeremiah 50:11 Another reading is in the grass
  2. Jeremiah 50:11 Lit mighty ones

11 “Because you rejoice and are glad,
    you who pillage my inheritance,(A)
because you frolic like a heifer(B) threshing grain
    and neigh like stallions,

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16 Since Israel is (A)stubborn
Like a stubborn cow,
[a]Will the Lord now (B)pasture them
Like a lamb in a large field?

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 4:16 Or The Lord will now pasture...field.

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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13 Arise and (A)thresh, daughter of Zion,
For I will make your horn iron,
And I will make your hoofs bronze,
So that you may (B)pulverize many peoples,
And (C)dedicate to the Lord their unjust profit,
And their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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13 “Rise and thresh,(A) Daughter Zion,
    for I will give you horns of iron;
I will give you hooves of bronze,
    and you will break to pieces many nations.”(B)
You will devote their ill-gotten gains to the Lord,(C)
    their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.

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