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Bible Verses About The Ox

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  1. Many bulls have compassed me: strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round.

  2. I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

  3. Rebuke the company of spearmen, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the people, till every one submit himself with pieces of silver: scatter thou the people that delight in war.

  4. This also shall please the LORD better than an ox or bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

  5. Thus they changed their glory into the similitude of an ox that eateth grass.

  6. That our oxen may be strong to labour; that there be no breaking in, nor going out; that there be no complaining in our streets.

  7. He goeth after her straightway, as an ox goeth to the slaughter, or as a fool to the correction of the stocks;

  8. She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

  9. ¶ Where no oxen are, the crib is clean: but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

  10. Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.

  11. ¶ Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

  12. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

  13. And on all hills that shall be digged with the mattock, there shall not come thither the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

  14. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

  15. My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.

  16. The oxen likewise and the young asses that ear the ground shall eat clean provender, which hath been winnowed with the shovel and with the fan.

  17. Blessed are ye that sow beside all waters, that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass.

  18. Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net: they are full of the fury of the LORD, the rebuke of thy God.

  19. And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

  20. But I was like a lamb or an ox that is brought to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, saying, Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.

  21. ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.

  22. Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

  23. Also her hired men are in the midst of her like fatted bullocks; for they also are turned back, and are fled away together: they did not stand, because the day of their calamity was come upon them, and the time of their visitation.

  24. From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

  25. Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;