Amos 6:12New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— Do horses run on rocks? Or does one plow them with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— 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:
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow [there] with oxen? that ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood:
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— 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;
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— 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:
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Shall horses run upon the rock? will [men] plough [thereon] with oxen? For ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Shall horses run upon crag? or will a man plough [there] with oxen? For ye have turned to poison the sentence of justice, and the fruit of righteousness, to wormwood:
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough [it] with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— Can horses run upon the rocks, or can any one plough with buffles? for you have turned judgment into bitterness, and the fruit of justice into wormwood.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— Shal horses runne vpon the rocke? or wil one plowe there with oxen? for yee haue turned iudgement into gall, and the fruite of righteousnes into wormewood.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Shall horses runne vpon the rocke? wil one plow [there] with oxen? for ye haue turned iudgement into gall, and the fruite of righteousnesse into hemlocke.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— Do horses run upon rocks? Or does one plough with horses? For you have turned justice into bitterness, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— 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:
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— 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: |
Shall horses
5483 {5483} Primeסוּסcuwc{soos}
From an unused root meaning to skip (properly for joy); a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight).
run
7323 {7323} Primeרוּץruwts{roots}
A primitive root; to run (for whatever reason, especially to rush).
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
upon the rock?
5553 {5553} Primeסֶלַעcela`{seh'-lah}
From an unused root meaning to be lofty; a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress).
will [ one] plow
2790 {2790} Primeחָרַשׁcharash{khaw-rash'}
A primitive root; to scratch, that is, (by implication) to engrave, plough; hence (from the use of tools) to fabricate (of any material); figuratively to devise (in a bad sense); hence (from the idea of secrecy) to be silent, to let alone; hence (by implication) to be deaf (as an accompaniment of dumbness).
z8799 <8799> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Imperfect (See H8811) Count - 19885
[ there] with oxen?
1241 {1241} Primeבָּקָרbaqar{baw-kawr'}
From H1239; a beeve or animal of the ox kind of either gender (as used for ploughing); collectively a herd.
for
x3588 (3588) Complementכִּיkiy{kee}
A primitive particle (the full form of the prepositional prefix) indicating causal relations of all kinds, antecedent or consequent; (by implication) very widely used as a relative conjugation or adverb; often largely modified by other particles annexed.
ye have turned
2015 {2015} Primeהָפַךְhaphak{haw-fak'}
A primitive root; to turn about or over; by implication to change, overturn, return, pervert.
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
judgment
4941 {4941} Primeמִשְׁפָּטmishpat{mish-pawt'}
From H8199; properly a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (particularly) divine law, individual or collectively), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly justice, including a particular right, or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style.
into gall,
7219 {7219} Primeרֹאשׁro'sh{roshe}
Apparently the same as H7218; a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents).
and the fruit
6529 {6529} Primeפְּרִיp@riy{per-ee'}
From H6509; fruit (literally or figuratively).
of righteousness
6666 {6666} Primeצְדָקָהts@daqah{tsed-aw-kaw'}
From H6663; rightness (abstractly), subjectively ( rectitude), objectively ( justice), morally ( virtue) or figuratively ( prosperity).
into hemlock:
3939 {3939} Primeלַעֲנָהla`anah{lah-an-aw'}
From an unused root supposed to mean to curse; wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed). |
Amos 6:12
_ _ In turning “judgment (justice) into gall (poison), and ... righteousness into hemlock” (or wormwood, bitter and noxious), ye act as perversely as if one were to make “horses run upon the rock” or to “plough with oxen there” [Maurer]. As horses and oxen are useless on a rock, so ye are incapable of fulfilling justice [Grotius]. Ye impede the course of God’s benefits, because ye are as it were a hard rock on which His favor cannot run. “Those that will not be tilled as fields, shall be abandoned as rocks” [Calvin]. |
Amos 6:12
Shall horses — If prophets exhort or advise, it does no more good than if you would run your horses upon the precipices of rocks. |
Amos 6:12
Shall horses (n) run upon the rock? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into (o) hemlock:
(n) He compares them to barren rocks, upon which it is in vain to bestow labour: showing that God's benefits can have no place among them.
(o) Read (Amos 5:7). |
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Isaiah 48:4 Because I knew that thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Jeremiah 5:3 O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
Jeremiah 6:29-30 The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed of the fire; the founder melteth in vain: for the wicked are not plucked away. ... Reprobate silver shall [men] call them, because the LORD hath rejected them.
Zechariah 7:11-12 But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear. ... Yea, they made their hearts [as] an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the LORD of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the LORD of hosts.
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Amos 5:7 Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Amos 5:11-12 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, but ye shall not drink wine of them. ... For I know your manifold 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].
1 Kings 21:7-13 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. ... And there came in two men, children of Belial, and sat before him: and the men of Belial witnessed against him, [even] against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth did blaspheme God and the king. Then they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.
Psalms 94:20-21 Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law? ... They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Isaiah 59:13-14 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. ... And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Hosea 10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Hosea 10:13 Ye have plowed wickedness, ye have reaped iniquity; ye have eaten the fruit of lies: because thou didst trust in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.
Micah 7:3 That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge [asketh] for a reward; and the great [man], he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.
Habakkuk 1:3-4 Why dost thou shew me iniquity, and cause [me] to behold grievance? for spoiling and violence [are] before me: and there are [that] raise up strife and contention. ... Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth.
Acts 7:51-52 Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye. ... Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
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