Amos 6:12

New American Bible - revised edition

Can horses run over rock, or can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Cross References

Isaiah 48:4

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

Jeremiah 5:3

Lord, do your eyes not search for honesty? You struck them, but they did not flinch; you laid them low, but they refused correction; They set their faces harder than stone, and refused to return.

Hosea 10:13

But you have plowed wickedness, reaped perversity, and eaten the fruit of falsehood. Because you have trusted in your own power, and in your many warriors,

Hosea 10:4

They make promises, swear false oaths, and make covenants, While lawsuits sprout like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field!

Amos 2:3

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

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do what is right— oracle of the Lord— Storing up in their strongholds violence and destruction.

Amos 5:7

Woe to those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground,

Micah 7:3

Their hands succeed at evil; the prince makes demands, The judge is bought for a price, the powerful speak as they please.

James 3:18

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