Amos 6:12

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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,

Cross References

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.