Amos 6:11-13

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¹¹For the Lord commands:

The large house will be smashed to pieces,
and the small house to rubble.^(A)

¹²Do horses gallop on the cliffs?
Does anyone plow there with oxen?^[a]
Yet you have turned justice into poison^(B)
and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood^(C)—
¹³you who rejoice over Lo-debar^(D)
and say, “Didn’t we capture Karnaim
for ourselves by our own strength?” ^(E)

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Footnotes

6:12 Some emend to plow the sea

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