Amos 6:12

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does anyone plough there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood   –

Cross References

Amos 5:7

Those who turn justice into wormwood also throw righteousness to the ground.

Hosea 10:4

They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Isaiah 48:4

Because I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is iron and your forehead bronze,

Micah 7:3

Both hands are good  at accomplishing evil: the official and the judge demand a bribe; when the powerful man communicates his evil desire, they plot it together.

Hosea 10:13

You have ploughed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in your large number of soldiers,

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, don’t your eyes look for faithfulness? You have struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They made their faces harder than rock, and they refused to return.

James 3:18

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

Amos 2:3

I will cut off the judge  from the land and kill all its officials  with him. The Lord has spoken.

Amos 3:10

The people are incapable of doing right   – this is the  Lord’s declaration – those who store up violence and destruction in their citadels.