Amos 6:12
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
“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—

Young's Literal Translation
Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough [it] with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.

King James Bible
Shall horses run upon the rock? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

Hebrew
“Do horses
סוּסִ֔ים (sū·sîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5483: A swallow, swift (type of bird)

gallop
הַיְרֻצ֤וּן (hay·ru·ṣūn)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural | Paragogic nun
Strong's 7323: To run

on the cliffs?
בַּסֶּ֙לַע֙ (bas·se·la‘)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5553: A craggy rock

Does one plow [the sea]
יַחֲר֖וֹשׁ (ya·ḥă·rō·wōš)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2790: To cut in, engrave, plow, devise

with oxen?
בַּבְּקָרִ֑ים (bab·bə·qā·rîm)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1241: Beef cattle, ox, a herd

But
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

you have turned
הֲפַכְתֶּ֤ם (hă·p̄aḵ·tem)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 2015: To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert

justice
מִשְׁפָּ֔ט (miš·pāṭ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style

into poison
לְרֹאשׁ֙ (lə·rōš)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7219: A poisonous plant, the poppy, poison

and the fruit
וּפְרִ֥י (ū·p̄ə·rî)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 6529: Fruit

of righteousness
צְדָקָ֖ה (ṣə·ḏā·qāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively

into wormwood—
לְלַעֲנָֽה׃ (lə·la·‘ă·nāh)
Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 3939: Wormwood

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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