Amos 6:12 ““Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But…”

Amos 6:12

“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

World English Bible

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow there with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness,

American Standard Version

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;

Geneva Bible 1599

Shal horses runne vpon the rocke? or wil one plowe there with oxen? for yee haue turned iudgement into gall, and the fruite of righteousnes into wormewood.

Darby Translation

Shall horses run upon the rock? will [men] plough [thereon] with oxen? For ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Young's Literal Translation

Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough [it] with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.

Bible in Basic English

Is it possible for horses to go running on the rock? may the sea be ploughed with oxen? for the right to be turned by you into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into a bitter plant?

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Cross references

“horses”

Isaiah 48:4 Jeremiah 5:3 Jeremiah 6:29 Jeremiah 6:30 Zechariah 7:11 Zechariah 7:12

Isaiah 48:4 · BSB

For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

Jeremiah 5:3 · BSB

O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

Jeremiah 6:29 · BSB

The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.

Jeremiah 6:30 · BSB

They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”

Zechariah 7:11 · BSB

But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.

Zechariah 7:12 · BSB

They made their hearts like flint and would not listen to the law or to the words that the LORD of Hosts had sent by His Spirit through the earlier prophets. Therefore great anger came from the LORD of Hosts.

“for”

Amos 5:7 Hosea 10:4 1 Kings 21:7–13 Hosea 10:13 Micah 7:3 Amos 5:11

Amos 5:7 · BSB

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

Hosea 10:4 · BSB

They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

1 Kings 21:7–13 · BSB

But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”

Hosea 10:13 · BSB

You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

Micah 7:3 · BSB

Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they all conspire together.

Amos 5:11 · BSB

Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

11For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.”

13you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’

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