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O (A)you who turn justice to wormwood[a]
    and cast down righteousness to the earth!

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  1. Amos 5:7 Or to bitter fruit

There are those who turn justice into bitterness(A)
    and cast righteousness(B) to the ground.(C)

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12 Do horses run on rocks?
    Does one plough there[a] with oxen?
(A)But you have turned justice into (B)poison
    (C)and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood[b]

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  1. Amos 6:12 Or the sea
  2. Amos 6:12 Or into bitter fruit

12 Do horses run on the rocky crags?
    Does one plow the sea[a] with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison(A)
    and the fruit of righteousness(B) into bitterness(C)

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  1. Amos 6:12 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plow there