Amos 6:12 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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:

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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.

Amos 6:12 Cross References

Amos 5:7

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Hosea 10:4

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Isaiah 48:4

Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Micah 7:3

That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

Hosea 10:13

Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.

Jeremiah 5:3

O Lord, are not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

James 3:18

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

Amos 2:3

and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.

Amos 3:10

For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.