They speak mere words,
[a]With (A)worthless oaths they make covenants;
And (B)judgment sprouts like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

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Footnotes

  1. Hosea 10:4 Or Swearing falsely in making a covenant

12 Do horses run on rocks?
Or does one plow [a]them with oxen?
Yet you have turned (A)justice into poison
And the fruit of righteousness into [b]wormwood,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:12 Another reading is the sea with oxen
  2. Amos 6:12 I.e. bitterness