Job 39:5

39:5 Who let the wild donkey go free?

Who released the bonds of the donkey,

Job 39:7

39:7 It scorns the tumult in the town;

it does not hear the shouts of a driver.

Job 1:14

1:14 and a messenger came to Job, saying, “The oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing beside them,

Job 41:5

41:5 Can you play with it, like a bird,

or tie it on a leash for your girls?

Psalms 129:3

129:3 The plowers plowed my back;

they made their furrows long.

Hosea 10:10-11

10:10 When I please, I will discipline them;

I will gather nations together to attack them,

to bind them in chains for their two sins.

Fertility Imagery: Plowing, Sowing, and Reaping

10:11 Ephraim was a well-trained heifer who loved to thresh grain;

I myself put a fine yokeon her neck.

I will harness Ephraim.

Let Judah plow!

Let Jacob break up the unplowed ground for himself!

Micah 1:13

1:13 Residents of Lachish, hitch the horses to the chariots!

You influenced Daughter Zion to sin,

for Israel’s rebellious deeds can be traced back to you!