11 For the LORD gives a command: “The great house will be smashed to pieces, and the small house to rubble.” 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— 13 you who rejoice in Lo-debar and say, ‘Did we not take Karnaim by our own strength?’
Amos 6:11–13
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Amos 5:6–8
6 Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it. 7 There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground. 8 He who made the Pleiades and…
Amos 3:14–15
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Amos 3:9–11
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Hosea 10:12–14
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Amos 2:12–14
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Isaiah 3:14–16
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