11. When the lord gives the command,homes both great and small will be smashed to pieces.
12. Can horses gallop over boulders?Can oxen be used to plow them?But that’s how foolish you are when you turn justice into poisonand the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness.
13. And you brag about your conquest of Lo-debar.You boast, “Didn’t we take Karnaim by our own strength?”
14. “O people of Israel, I am about to bring an enemy nation against you,”says the lord God of Heaven’s Armies.“They will oppress you throughout your land—from Lebo-hamath in the northto the Arabah Valley in the south.”