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A horse pauses before rock beside a plow, tipped scales, and wormwood.
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Amos 6:12-14

Justice Made Poison

The End of Complacency · Amos 6

Story guide: Horse and plow are rhetorical analogies. The distant horizon accompanies the warning of an oppressive nation.

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12Do horses run on rock? Does one plow there with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood.

13you who rejoice over nothing, who say, “Have we not by our own strength taken horns for ourselves?”

14For behold, I am raising up against you a nation, O house of Israel, declares Yahweh, the God of hosts, and they will oppress you from Lebo-hamath to the Wadi of the Arabah.

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