11 看啊,耶和華一聲令下,
大屋頓成瓦礫,小房化為碎片。
12 馬能在懸崖上奔馳嗎?
牛能在海中耕作嗎?
你們卻使公正淪為毒藥,
使公義之果變成苦艾。
13 你們炫耀自己征服了羅底巴,
吹噓憑自己的能力奪取了加寧。

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11 For the Lord has given the command,
    and he will smash(A) the great house(B) into pieces
    and the small house into bits.(C)

12 Do horses run on the rocky crags?
    Does one plow the sea[a] with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison(D)
    and the fruit of righteousness(E) into bitterness(F)
13 you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar[b]
    and say, “Did we not take Karnaim[c] by our own strength?(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:12 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plow there
  2. Amos 6:13 Lo Debar means nothing.
  3. Amos 6:13 Karnaim means horns; horn here symbolizes strength.