Amos 6:12

KJV1611 – Modern English

Shall horses run on the rock? Will one plow there with oxen? For you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

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  • Amos 5:7 : 7 You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
  • Amos 5:11-12 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your many transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
  • Hos 10:4 : 4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as poison in the furrows of the field.
  • 1 Kgs 21:7-9 : 7 And Jezebel his wife said to him, Do you now govern the kingdom of Israel? Arise, and eat bread, and let your heart be merry: I will give you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite. 8 So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters to the elders and the nobles who were in his city, dwelling with Naboth. 9 And she wrote in the letters, saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people: 10 And set two men, worthless fellows, before him to bear witness against him, saying, You blasphemed God and the king. And then carry him out and stone him, that he may die. 11 And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants of his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, and as it was written in the letters she had sent to them. 12 They proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth on high among the people. 13 And two men, worthless fellows, came in and sat before him; and the men bore witness against him, even against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. Then they carried him out of the city and stoned him with stones, so that he died.
  • Isa 59:13-14 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
  • Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, are not your eyes upon the truth? You have stricken them, but they have not grieved; you have consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
  • Jer 6:29-30 : 29 The bellows blow fiercely, the lead is consumed by the fire; the refiner melts in vain, for the wicked are not removed. 30 Rejected silver shall men call them, because the LORD has rejected them.
  • Ps 94:20-21 : 20 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with you, which frames mischief by a law? 21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
  • Isa 48:4 : 4 Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow as bronze;
  • Mic 7:3 : 3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
  • Hab 1:3-4 : 3 Why do You show me iniquity, and cause me to behold trouble? For plundering and violence are before me; there are those who raise up strife and contention. 4 Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth, for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.
  • Zech 7:11-12 : 11 But they refused to heed, and shrugged their shoulders, and stopped their ears, so they should not hear. 12 Yes, they made their hearts like an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts sent in His Spirit by the former prophets: therefore, great wrath came from the LORD of hosts.
  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,
  • Hos 10:13 : 13 You have plowed wickedness, you have reaped iniquity; you have eaten the fruit of lies: because you trusted in your own way, in the multitude of your mighty men.

Similar Verses (AI)

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    7You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

  • Hos 10:4
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  • Amos 6:13
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    13You who rejoice in a thing of nothing, who say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

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    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

  • Jer 12:4-5
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    4How long will the land mourn and the herbs of every field wither, because of the wickedness of those who dwell in it? The beasts and the birds are consumed, because they said, 'He will not see our final end.'

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  • Hos 10:12-13
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    12Sow for yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

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    32For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

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    12Therefore for your sake Zion shall be plowed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of the forest.

  • Jer 12:1
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  • Job 36:17
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    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

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    13They have sown wheat, but shall reap thorns; they have put themselves to pain, but shall not profit. And they shall be ashamed of your harvests because of the fierce anger of the LORD.

  • Isa 5:7
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    7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

  • Isa 7:25
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    25And on all hills that shall be dug with the mattock, there shall not come the fear of briers and thorns: but it shall be for the sending forth of oxen, and for the treading of lesser cattle.

  • Ezek 34:18-19
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    18Does it seem a small thing to you to have eaten up the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the rest of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but you must foul the rest with your feet?

    19And as for my flock, they eat what you have trodden with your feet; and they drink what you have fouled with your feet.

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    6I listened and heard, but they did not speak rightly: no man repented of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? Everyone turned to his own course, like a horse charging into battle.

  • Job 6:5
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    5Does the wild donkey bray when he has grass? Or does the ox low over his fodder?

  • Mal 2:17
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    17You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

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    15You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; and crush grapes, but not drink the wine.

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    15Therefore thus says the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

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    14The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

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    11Is there iniquity in Gilead? Surely they are vanity; they sacrifice bulls in Gilgal; yes, their altars are as heaps in the furrows of the fields.

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    16But you said, No; for we will flee on horses; therefore you shall flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

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    9Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

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    70%

    22Your silver has become dross, your wine mixed with water:

  • Job 6:30
    70%

    30Is there iniquity in my tongue? Cannot my palate discern perverse things?

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  • Ps 107:34
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    34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

  • Joel 1:17
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    17The seed shrivels under their clods, the storehouses are desolate, the barns are broken down; for the grain is withered.

  • Isa 28:6
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    6And for a spirit of judgment to him who sits in judgment, and for strength to those who turn the battle to the gate.

  • Hab 1:4
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    4Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth, for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

  • Jer 12:10
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    10Many shepherds have destroyed My vineyard, they have trampled My portion underfoot; they have made My pleasant portion a desolate wilderness.

  • Isa 28:28
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    28Bread grain is crushed, yet he does not thresh it forever, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor crush it with his horsemen.

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    23Who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

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