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Amos 6

Amos 6:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Shall horses
cuwc (Hebrew #5483)
from an unused root meaning to skip (properly, for joy); a horse (as leaping); also a swallow (from its rapid flight)
KJV usage: crane, horse((-back, -hoof)). Compare 6571.
Pronounce: soos
Origin: or cuc {soos}
run
ruwts (Hebrew #7323)
to run (for whatever reason, especially to rush)
KJV usage: break down, divide speedily, footman, guard, bring hastily, (make) run (away, through), post.
Pronounce: roots
Origin: a primitive root
upon the rock
cela` (Hebrew #5553)
a craggy rock, literally or figuratively (a fortress)
KJV usage: (ragged) rock, stone(-ny), strong hold.
Pronounce: seh'-lah
Origin: from an unused root meaning to be lofty
? will one plow
charash (Hebrew #2790)
to scratch, i.e. (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)
KJV usage: X altogether, cease, conceal, be deaf, devise, ear, graven, imagine, leave off speaking, hold peace, plow(-er, man), be quiet, rest, practise secretly, keep silence, be silent, speak not a word, be still, hold tongue, worker.
Pronounce: khaw-rash'
Origin: a primitive root
there with oxen
baqar (Hebrew #1241)
beef cattle or an animal of the ox family of either gender (as used for plowing); collectively, a herd
KJV usage: beeve, bull (+ -ock), + calf, + cow, great (cattle), + heifer, herd, kine, ox.
Pronounce: baw-kawr'
Origin: from 1239
? for ye have turned
haphak (Hebrew #2015)
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
KJV usage: X become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Pronounce: haw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
judgment
mishpat (Hebrew #4941)
properly, a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly, justice, including a participant's right or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style
KJV usage: + adversary, ceremony, charge, X crime, custom, desert, determination, discretion, disposing, due, fashion, form, to be judged, judgment, just(-ice, -ly), (manner of) law(-ful), manner, measure, (due) order, ordinance, right, sentence, usest, X worthy, + wrong.
Pronounce: mish-pawt'
Origin: from 8199
m into gall
ro'sh (Hebrew #7219)
apparently the same as 7218; a poisonous plant, probably the poppy (from its conspicuous head); generally poison (even of serpents)
KJV usage: gall, hemlock, poison, venom.
Pronounce: roshe
Origin: or rowsh (Deut. 32:32) {roshe}
, and the fruit
priy (Hebrew #6529)
fruit (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bough, ((first-)) fruit((-ful)), reward.
Pronounce: per-ee'
Origin: from 6509
of righteousness
tsdaqah (Hebrew #6666)
rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity)
KJV usage: justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness).
Pronounce: tsed-aw-kaw'
Origin: from 6663
into hemlock
la`anah (Hebrew #3939)
wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed)
KJV usage: hemlock, wormwood.
Pronounce: lah-an-aw'
Origin: from an unused root supposed to mean to curse
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Amos 5:7• 7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth. (Amos 5:7)
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Hos. 10:4• 4They have spoken [mere] words, swearing falsely, making a covenant, and judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. (Hos. 10:4)

More on:

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Gall,
Hemlock,
Horse,
Ox; Oxen,
Righteousness,
Rock,
To Plough; To Plow

Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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Isa. 48:4• 4Because I knew that thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass; (Isa. 48:4)
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Jer. 5:3• 3{i}Jehovah, are not thine eyes upon fidelity? Thou hast smitten them, but they are not sore; thou hast consumed them, they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.{/i} (Jer. 5:3)
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Jer. 6:29‑30• 29{i}The bellows are burned, the lead is consumed by the fire; they have melted, and melted in vain; and the bad are not plucked away.{/i}
 30{i}Reprobate silver shall they call them, for Jehovah hath rejected them.{/i} (Jer. 6:29‑30)
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Zech. 7:11‑12• 11{i}But they refused to hearken, and turned a rebellious shoulder, and made their ears heavy, that they should not hear.{/i}
 12{i}And they made their heart as an adamant, that they should not hear the law, and the words that Jehovah of hosts sent by his Spirit by the hand of the former prophets: therefore was there great wrath from Jehovah of hosts.{/i} (Zech. 7:11‑12)
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Amos 5:7,11‑12• 7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth.
 11Forasmuch 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.
 12For 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. (Amos 5:7,11‑12)
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1 Kings 21:7‑13• 7{i}And Jezebel his wife said to him, Dost thou now exercise sovereignty over Israel? arise, eat bread, and let thy heart be glad: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jizreelite.{/i}
 8{i}And she wrote a letter in Ahab's name, and sealed it with his seal, and sent the letter to the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.{/i}
 9{i}And she wrote in the letter saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people;{/i}
 10{i}and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, and they shall bear witness against him saying, Thou didst curse God and the king; and carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.{/i}
 11{i}And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles that dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letter that she had sent to them:{/i}
 12{i}they proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people.{/i}
 13{i}And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.{/i} (1 Kings 21:7‑13)
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Psa. 94:20‑21• 20Shall the throne of wickedness have fellowship with thee,{HR}Which frameth mischief by statute?
 21They gather themselves against the soul of the righteous,{HR}And condemn the innocent blood. (Psa. 94:20‑21)
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Isa. 59:13‑14• 13in transgressing and lying against Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
 14And judgment is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter. (Isa. 59:13‑14)
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Hos. 10:4,13• 4They have spoken [mere] words, swearing falsely, making a covenant, and judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
 13{i}Ye have ploughed wickedness, reaped iniquity, eaten the fruit of lies; for thou didst confide in thy way, in the multitude of thy mighty men.{/i} (Hos. 10:4,13)
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Mic. 7:3• 3{i}Both hands are for evil, to do it well. The prince asketh, and the judge is there for a reward; and the great man uttereth his soul's greed: and together they combine it.{/i} (Mic. 7:3)
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Hab. 1:3‑4• 3Why dost thou show me iniquity, and beholdest grievance? for spoiling and violence are before me: and there are that raise up strife and contention.
 4Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth; for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. (Hab. 1:3‑4)
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Acts 7:51‑52• 51Stiffnecked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers so ye.
 52Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? And they slew those that announced beforehand of the coming of the Righteous One, of whom now ye became betrayers and murderers, (Acts 7:51‑52)
• {v.12-14} Lastly, the absurdity of expecting any other result than destruction from their ways is set strikingly before them. (“Amos 6” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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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,

W. Kelly Translation

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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: