Amos 6:12 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹² Do horses run on rocky crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice 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 Krydshenvisninger

Isaiah 48:4

Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, do your eyes not look for truth? You have struck them, but they felt no anguish; you have consumed them, but they refused to take correction. They have made their faces harder than rock; they have refused to turn back.

Hosea 10:13

You have plowed wickedness; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your chariots, in the multitude of your warriors,

Hosea 10:4

They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so litigation springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Amos 2:3

I will cut off the ruler from its midst and will kill all its officials with him, says the Lord.

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.

Amos 5:7

Ah, you who turn justice to wormwood and bring righteousness to the ground!

Micah 7:3

Their hands are skilled to do evil; the official and the judge ask for a bribe, and the powerful dictate what they desire; thus they pervert justice.

James 3:18

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