Amos 6:12 - The Scriptures 2009

¹² Do horses run on a rock? Does one plough it with oxen? For you have turned right-ruling into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² 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:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² Do horses run upon rocks? Do men plow the ocean with oxen? But you have turned justice into [the poison of] gall and the fruit of righteousness into [the bitterness of] wormwood–

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² 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;

Common English Bible

¹² Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness—

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² For behold, the Lord has commanded, and he will strike the greater house with catastrophes, and the lesser house with divisions.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹² For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts.

Amos 6:12 Cross References

Isaiah 48:4

“Because I knew that you were hard, and your neck was an iron sinew, and your forehead bronze,

Jeremiah 5:3

O יהוה, are Your eyes not on truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved. You have consumed them, but they have refused to receive instruction. They made their faces stronger than rock, they refused to turn back.

Hosea 10:13

You have ploughed wrongness, you have reaped unrighteousness, you have eaten the fruit of lying, because you trusted in your own way, in your many mighty men.

Hosea 10:4

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Therefore judgment shall spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Amos 2:3

“And I shall cut off the judge from its midst, and kill all its heads with him,” said יהוה.

Amos 3:10

But they do not know to do what is right,’ declares יהוה, ‘these who store up plunder and loot in their palaces.’ ”

Amos 5:7

“O you who are turning right-ruling to wormwood, and have cast down righteousness to the earth!”

Micah 7:3

Both hands are on the evil, to do it well. The prince asks for gifts, the judge seeks a bribe, and the great man speaks the desire of his being. And they weave it together.

James 3:18

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.