“Like a stubborn heifer,
Israel is stubborn.
Can Yahweh
Now feed them
Like a lamb
In a broad pasture?”
Hosea insisted that Israel was stubborn, just like a stubborn heifer or young cow. How could Yahweh feed them, as if they were meek lambs in a wide-open pasture? Thus, there is a difference between the stubborn young cow of Israel and the mild-mannered lamb of Judah.
