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11 Look, the Lord will give the command,
    and the large houses will be broken to pieces,
    and the small houses will be broken to small pieces.
12 Do horses run over loose rocks?
    No, and people don’t use cows for plowing.
But you turned everything upside down.
    You changed justice and goodness to bitter poison.
13 You are so excited about defeating Lo Debar.[a]
    And you boast, “We have taken Karnaim[b] by our own strength.”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:13 Lo Debar This name means “nothing.”
  2. Amos 6:13 Karnaim This name means “horns.” Horns were a symbol of strength.

11 For the Lord has given the command,
    and he will smash(A) the great house(B) into pieces
    and the small house into bits.(C)

12 Do horses run on the rocky crags?
    Does one plow the sea[a] with oxen?
But you have turned justice into poison(D)
    and the fruit of righteousness(E) into bitterness(F)
13 you who rejoice in the conquest of Lo Debar[b]
    and say, “Did we not take Karnaim[c] by our own strength?(G)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 6:12 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plow there
  2. Amos 6:13 Lo Debar means nothing.
  3. Amos 6:13 Karnaim means horns; horn here symbolizes strength.