12 Do horses gallop on the cliffs;
does anyone plow there with oxen?[a]
Yet you have turned justice into poison(A)
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood(B)
13 you who rejoice over Lo-debar(C)
and say, “Didn’t we capture Karnaim
for ourselves by our own strength?”(D)
14 But look, I am raising up a nation
against you, house of Israel(E)
this is the declaration of the Lord,
the God of Hosts—
and they will oppress you
from the entrance of Hamath[b](F)
to the Brook of the Arabah.[c]

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:12 Some emend to plow the sea
  2. Amos 6:14 Or from Lebo-hamath
  3. Amos 6:14 Probably the Valley of Zared at the southeast end of the Dead Sea

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