to tread out] Wherein is pleasure, as in ploughing is labour and pain: even so my people would enjoy my blessings, but would not be subject to the yoke of mine obedience and discipline. her faire neck] Heb. the beauty of her neck. I will tame her and bring her into subjection. I will make Ephraim to ride] Now I will handle Ephraim more hardly, the whole nation shall be carried captive into Assyria: neither wil I spare Judah, but he shall plough and harrow, that is, suffer misery by the Babylonish captivitie: and this was lesse and more tolerable then that of the ten tribes, as it is lesse trouble to the beast that plougheth and harroweth, then to the horse that is ridden, specially by a rigid rider.