Amos 6:12

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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:

Horses

For

General references

Matthew 13:5

Mark 4:5

Luke 8:6

Bible References

Horses

From my knowing that thou art obstinate, And a sinew of iron thy neck, And thy forehead brass,

Jehovah, Thine eyes, are they not on stedfastness? Thou hast smitten them, and they have not grieved, Thou hast consumed them, They have refused to receive instruction, They made their faces harder than a rock, They have refused to turn back.

The bellows have been burnt, By fire hath the lead been consumed, In vain hath a refiner refined, And the wicked have not been drawn away.

And they refuse to attend, And they give a refractory shoulder, And their ears have made heavy against hearing.

For

Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,

And Jezebel his wife saith unto him, 'Thou now dost execute rule over Israel! rise, eat bread, and let thy heart be glad, -- I do give to thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.'

Is a throne of mischief joined with Thee? A framer of perverseness by statute?

Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostasy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood.

They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.

On the evil are both hands to do it well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

Why dost Thou shew me iniquity, And perversity dost cause to behold? And spoiling and violence are before me, And there is strife, and contention doth lift itself up,

Ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and in ears! ye do always the Holy Spirit resist; as your fathers -- also ye;

General references

and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth, and immediately they sprang forth, through not having depth of earth,

and other fell upon the rocky ground, where it had not much earth, and immediately it sprang forth, because of not having depth of earth,

'And other fell upon the rock, and having sprung up, it did wither, through not having moisture.