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Amos 6:12

“Do horses gallop on the cliffs?

Does one plow the sea

with oxen?

But you have turned justice into poison

and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

Amos 6:12 BSB
  1. a Literally Does one plow (there)

Amos 6:12 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Amos 5:7 (7 votes) and Hosea 10:4 (5 votes). 17 other verses point back to it. It links with 19 other books, from Deuteronomy 29 to Revelation 8.

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Which verses does Amos 6:12 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Amos 5:77 votes

    There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

  2. Hosea 10:45 votes

    They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

  3. Isaiah 59:13–144 votes

    rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart. So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter.

  4. Amos 5:11–124 votes

    Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted. For I know that your transgressions are many and your sins are numerous. You oppress the righteous by taking bribes; you deprive the poor of justice in the gate.

  5. 1 Kings 21:7–133 votes

    But his wife Jezebel said to him, “Do you not reign over Israel? Get up, eat some food, and be cheerful, for I will get you the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.” Then Jezebel wrote letters in Ahab’s name, sealed them with his seal, and sent them to the elders and nobles who lived with Naboth in his city. …

  6. Psalm 94:20–213 votes

    Can a corrupt throne be Your ally—one devising mischief by decree? They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.

  7. Isaiah 48:43 votes

    For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

  8. Jeremiah 5:32 votes

    O LORD, do not Your eyes look for truth? You struck them, but they felt no pain. You finished them off, but they refused to accept discipline. They have made their faces harder than stone and refused to repent.

  9. Jeremiah 6:29–302 votes

    The bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged. They are called rejected silver, because the LORD has rejected them.”

  10. Hosea 10:132 votes

    You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,

  11. Micah 7:32 votes
  12. Habakkuk 1:3–42 votes
  13. Zechariah 7:11–122 votes
  14. Acts 7:51–522 votes

Which verses point to Amos 6:12?

The 10 strongest of 17.