Amos 6:12 - John Wesley's Notes

Amos 6:12

10 And when¹ a relative of the dead, with one who will burn the bodies, picks up the² bodies to take them out of the house, he will say to one inside the house, “Are there any more with you?” Then someone will say, “None.” And he will say, ^a“Hold your tongue! ^bFor we dare not mention the name of the Lord.”

11 For behold, ^athe Lord gives a command:
^bHe will break the great house into bits,
And the little house into pieces.

12 Do horses run on rocks?
Does one plow there with oxen?
Yet ^ayou have turned justice into gall,
And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

13 You who rejoice over¹ Lo Debar,
Who say, “Have we not taken¹ Karnaim for ourselves
By our own strength?”

14 “But, behold, ^aI will raise up a nation against you,
O house of Israel,”
Says the Lord God of hosts;
“And they will afflict you from the ^bentrance of Hamath
To the Valley of the Arabah.”

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Shall horses - If prophets exhort or advise, it does no more good than if you would run your horses upon the precipices of rocks.

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