As a whip for a horse, and a goad for a donkey, so is a rod for a simple nation.

I have heard the sound of Ephraim lamenting, [and saying], You have chastened me, and I was chastened; I as a calf was not [willingly] taught: turn me, and I shall turn; for You [are] the Lord my God.

Consider that we put bits in horses' mouths that they may obey us, and we guide their whole body.

Therefore submit to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.

Lament and mourn and weep! Let your laughter change into mourning and your joy into dejection.

who makes me to differ from the four-footed beasts of the earth, and from the birds of the sky?

For the princes of My people have not known Me, they are foolish and unwise children. They are wise to do evil, but [how] to do good they have not known.

Hearken, I pray, and hear: will they not speak thus, There is no man that repents of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? The runner has failed from his course, as a tired horse in his neighing.

Even the stork in the heaven knows her time, [also] the turtledove and wild swallow; the sparrows observe the times of their coming in; but this My people knows not the judgments of the Lord.