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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 {H5483} run {H7323} upon the rock {H5553}? will one plow {H2790} there with oxen {H1241}? for ye have turned {H2015} judgment {H4941} into gall {H7219}, and the fruit {H6529} of righteousness {H6666} into hemlock {H3939}:

Do horses run on rock? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitter wormwood.

“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—

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plowtherewith oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;

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Cross-References

  • Amos 5:7 (7 votes)

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

  • Hosea 10:4 (5 votes)

    They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

  • Amos 5:11 (4 votes)

    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.

  • Amos 5:12 (4 votes)

    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].

  • Isaiah 59:13 (4 votes)

    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.

  • Isaiah 59:14 (4 votes)

    And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

  • Psalms 94:20 (3 votes)

    Shall the throne of iniquity have fellowship with thee, which frameth mischief by a law?