Amos 6:12
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:
KJV
Quia ecce Dominus mandabit, et percutiet domum majorem ruinis, et domum minorem scissionibus.
Vulgate
εἰ διώξονται ἐν πέτραις ἵπποι; εἰ παρασιωπήσονται ἐν θηλείαις; ὅτι ἐξεστρέψατε εἰς θυμὸν κρίμα, καὶ καρπὸν δικαιοσύνης εἰς πικρίαν,
LXX
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plowtherewith oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;
ASV
הַ/יְרֻצ֤וּ/ן בַּ/סֶּ֨לַע֙ סוּסִ֔ים אִֽם יַחֲר֖וֹשׁ בַּ/בְּקָרִ֑ים כִּֽי הֲפַכְתֶּ֤ם לְ/רֹאשׁ֙ מִשְׁפָּ֔ט וּ/פְרִ֥י צְדָקָ֖ה לְ/לַעֲנָֽה
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
13 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- 1Kgs 21:7 — And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.
- Acts 24:25 — And as he reasoned of righteousness, temperance, and judgment to come, Felix trembled, and answered, Go thy way for this time; when I have a convenient season, I will call for thee.
- Amos 5:7 — Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
- Amos 5:7 — Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
- Amos 5:11 — Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, bu
- Deut 29:18 — Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a
- Hos 10:4 — They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
- Hos 10:4 — They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
- Isa 48:4 — Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
- Isa 59:13 — In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- Jas 3:18 — And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.
- Mark 4:5 — And some fell on stony ground, where it had not much earth; and immediately it sprang up, because it had no depth of earth:
- Prov 17:15 — He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both are abomination to the LORD.
- Ps 94:20 — Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?
- Rev 8:11 — And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.