Amos 6:12

“Do horses gallop on the cliffs? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

Cross References (14)

  • Amos 5:7 (7)

    There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

  • Hosea 10:4 (5)

    They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows

  • Amos 5:11–12 (4)

    Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses yo

  • Isaiah 59:13–14 (4)

    rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies

  • Psalms 94:20–21 (3)

    Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree?

  • Isaiah 48:4 (3)

    For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

  • 1 Kings 21:7–13 (3)

    But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get

  • Jeremiah 5:3 (2)

    O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused

  • Habakkuk 1:3–4 (2)

    Why do You make me see iniquity? Why do You tolerate wrongdoing? Destruction and violence are before me. Strife is ongoi

  • Jeremiah 6:29–30 (2)

    The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purge

  • Hosea 10:13 (2)

    You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own

  • Acts 7:51–52 (2)

    You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

  • Micah 7:3 (2)

    Both hands are skilled at evil; the prince and the judge demand a bribe. When the powerful utters his evil desire, they

  • Zechariah 7:11–12 (2)

    But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.