Amos 6:12

Lighthouse Bible 2006

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

Cross References

Isaiah 48:4

Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;

Jeremiah 5:3

O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? you have struck them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

Hosea 10:13

You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you trusted in your way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

Hosea 10:4

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

Amos 2:3

And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, says the LORD.

Amos 3:10

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

Amos 5:7

You who turn judgment to wormwood, and cease to do righteousness in the earth,

Micah 7:3

So that they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man, he speaks his mischievous desire: so they weave it together.

James 3:18

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