Amos.6.12

Amos 6:12

KJV GOD

¶ 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:

The Pride of Israel

“Those at Ease in Zion”

Cross References

James 3:18

KJV

And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace of them that make peace.

The Wisdom from Above

1 Kings 21:7

KJV

And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

Naboth’s Vineyard

Ahab Covets Naboth’s Vineyard

Isaiah 59:13

KJV

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.

Sin Separates Us from God

A Confession of Wickedness

Isaiah 59:14

KJV

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

Sin Separates Us from God

A Confession of Wickedness

Hosea 10:4

KJV

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

Retribution for Israel’s Sin

Amos 2:3

KJVGOD

And I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the Lord.

Judgment on Moab, Judah, and Israel

Amos 3:10

KJVGOD

For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Witnesses against Israel

Amos 5:7

KJVGOD

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

A Call to Repentance

“Seek Me that You May Live”

Amos 5:11

KJVGOD

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.