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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 poison
    and the sweet fruit of righteousness into bitterness.
13 And you brag about your conquest of Lo-debar.[a]
    You boast, “Didn’t we take Karnaim[b] by our own strength?”

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Footnotes

  1. 6:13a Lo-debar means “nothing.”
  2. 6:13b Karnaim means “horns,” a term that symbolizes strength.

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