Bible Verses About The Ox

Many bulls surround me, wild bulls of Bashan close in on me.

I have no need for a bull from your farm or for male goats from your pens;

Rebuke the wild beast of the reeds, that herd of bulls with their calves, the peoples, who ingratiate themselves with bars of silver; let him scatter the peoples who take pleasure in fighting.

This will please ADONAI more than a bull, with its horns and hoofs.

Thus they exchanged their Glory for the image of an ox that eats grass!

our oxen are well-fed, our city walls have no breach, our people are not taken captive, and there are no cries of protest in our cities' open places.

At once he follows her like an ox on its way to be slaughtered; like a fool to be punished in the stocks;

She has prepared her food, spiced her wine, and she has set her table.

Where there are no oxen, the stalls are clean; but much is produced by the strength of an ox.

Better a vegetable dinner with love than a stall-fattened ox with hate.

Take care to know the condition of your flocks, and pay attention to your herds.

An ox knows its owner and a donkey its master's stall, but Isra'el does not know, my people do not reflect.

You won't visit hills once worked with a hoe, for fear of the briars and thorns; it will be good only for pasturing cattle and being trampled down by sheep.

Cow and bear will feed together, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.

My heart cries out for Mo'av! Its fugitives flee to Tzo'ar, a calf three years old. They ascend the slope of Luchit, weeping as they go; on their way to Horonayim, they utter heartrending cries.

The oxen and donkeys that work the land will eat a tasty mixture, winnowed free of chaff, spread by pitchfork and shovel.

Happy are you who sow by all streams, letting oxen and donkeys roam freely.

Your children lie helpless at every street corner, like an antelope trapped in a net; they are full of ADONAI's fury, the rebuke of your God.

The Sharon will be a pasture for flocks, the Akhor Valley a place for cattle to rest, for my people who have sought me.

But I was like a tame lamb led to be slaughtered; I did not know that they were plotting schemes against me - "Let's destroy the tree with its fruit, we'll cut him off from the land of the living, so that his name will be forgotten."

"I hear Efrayim bemoaning himself: 'You disciplined me, and I took your discipline like a young ox not used to a yoke. Let me return, and I will return, for you are ADONAI, my God.

Egypt is a beautiful female calf; but a horsefly from the north has come to attack her.

Her mercenaries too, that she had with her, were like well-fed calves in a stable; but they too have withdrawn in retreat, they all ran away without standing their ground. For their day of disaster has come over them, the time for them to be punished.

The cries from Heshbon to El'aleh are heard as far away as Yachatz; those from Tzo'ar to Horonayim are heard in 'Eglat-Shlishiyah; for even the waters of Nimrim have become a desolate waste.

"Because you are glad, because you exult, you plunderers of my heritage; because you frisk like a calf in the grass and neigh like stallions;