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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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Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

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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

12 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:

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