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Amos 6:12

The English Standar Version

Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow there[1] with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood[2] --

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Because I know that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew and your forehead brass,

O LORD, do not your eyes look for truth? You have struck them down, 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 repent.

You have plowed iniquity; you have reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your warriors,

They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will kill all its princes[2] with him," says the LORD.

"They do not know how to do right," declares the LORD, "those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds."

O you who turn justice to wormwood[1] and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Their hands are on what is evil, to do it well; the prince and the judge ask for a bribe, and the great man utters the evil desire of his soul; thus they weave it together.

And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.




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