Because I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is iron and your forehead bronze,
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 – Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Do horses run upon rocks? Do men plow the ocean with oxen? But you have turned justice into [the poison of] gall and the fruit of righteousness into [the bitterness of] wormwood– American Standard Version (1901) Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood; Common English Bible Do horses run on rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness— Catholic Public Domain Version For behold, the Lord has commanded, and he will strike the greater house with catastrophes, and the lesser house with divisions. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For behold the Lord hath commanded, and he will strike the greater house with breaches, and the lesser house with clefts. |
Because I know that you are stubborn, and your neck is iron and your forehead bronze,
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.
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,
They speak mere words, taking false oaths while making covenants. So lawsuits break out like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
I will cut off the judge from the land and kill all its officials with him. The Lord has spoken.
The people are incapable of doing right – this is the Lord’s declaration – those who store up violence and destruction in their citadels.
Those who turn justice into wormwood also throw righteousness to the ground.
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.
And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace by those who cultivate peace.