Amos 6:12
Will horses run upon rocks? will they refrain from neighing at mares? for ye have turned judgment into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness:
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
In Context
13ye who rejoice at vanity, who say, Have we not possessed horns by our own strength?
Cross References
1 Kings 21:7And the king of Israel called all the elders of the land, and said, Take notice now and consider, that this man seeks mischief: for he has sent to me concerning my wives, and concerning my sons, and concerning my daughters: I have not kept back from him my silver and my gold.
Isaiah 48:4I know that thou art stubborn, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy forehead brazen.
Jeremiah 5:3O Lord, thine eyes are upon faithfulness: thou hast scourged them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them; but they would not receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; and they would not return.
Hosea 10:4and what should a king do for us, speaking false professions as his words? he will make a covenant: judgment shall spring up as a weed on the soil of the field.
Amos 5:7It is he that executes judgment in the height above, and he has established justice on the earth:
Micah 7:3they prepare their hands for mischief, the prince asks a reward, and the judge speaks flattering words; it is the desire of their soul:
Matthew Henry on Amos 6:9-14
Threatenings of Judgment. ( b. c. 790.) 8 The Lord God hath sworn by himself, saith the Lord the God of hosts, I abhor the excellency of Jacob, and hate his palaces: therefore will I deliver up the city with all that is therein. 9 And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die. 10 And a man's uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he… Read the whole commentary →