Holy Scripture
Amos 6:14
A church father on this verse
“(Verse 12 onwards) For behold, the Lord will command and strike down the great house with ruins, and the small house with breaches. Can horses run on rocks, or can it be plowed with oxen? For you have turned justice into bitterness, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood. You who rejoice in nothingness, who say:…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
14For behold, O house of Israel, I will raise up against you a nation, saith the Lord of hosts; and they shall afflict you so that ye shall not enter into Hamath, and as it were from the river of the wilderness.
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In context
12Will horses run upon rocks? will they refrain from neighing at mares? for ye have turned judgment into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness:
13ye who rejoice at vanity, who say, Have we not possessed horns by our own strength?
— Amos 6:14 —