12 Shall horses [a]run upon the rock? or will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into [b]wormwood.

13 Yet rejoice in a thing of nought: ye say, Have not we gotten us [c]horns by our own strength?

14 But behold, I will raise up against you a nation, O house of Israel, saith the Lord God of hosts: and they shall afflict you from the entering in of [d]Hamath unto the river of the wilderness.

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:12 He compareth them to barren rocks, whereupon it is in vain to bestow labor: showing that God’s benefits can have no place among them.
  2. Amos 6:12 Read Amos 5:7.
  3. Amos 6:13 That is, power and glory.
  4. Amos 6:14 From one corner of the country to another.

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