Amos 6:12
Do horses run on the rocky cliffs? 1 Does one plow there with oxen? 1 Yet you have turned justice into poison 1 and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness. 1
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13You who rejoice over Lo Debar, 1 who say, “Have we not taken Karnaim by our own strength?” 1
Cross References
1 Kings 21:7So Jezebel his wife replied to him, “Do you not still rule the kingdom of Israel? Get up and eat; let your heart be happy. I will obtain for you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.”
Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that you were obstinate, 1 your neck muscles tight as iron, and your forehead like bronze, 1
Jeremiah 5:3Yahweh, do your eyes not look for faithfulness? You struck the people, but they do not feel pain. 1 You have completely defeated them, but they still refuse to receive discipline. They make their faces harder than rock, for they refuse to repent. 1
Hosea 10:4They speak empty words 1 and make covenants by swearing falsely. 1 So justice springs up 1 like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field. 1
Amos 5:7Those people turn justice into a bitter thing 1 and throw righteousness down to the ground!” 1
Micah 7:3Their hands are very good at doing harm: 1 the ruler asks for money, 1 the judge is ready for bribes, 1 and the powerful man is saying to others what he wants to obtain. 1 Thus they plot together. 1
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 →