Amos 5:7 “There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness…”

Amos 5:7

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

World English Bible

You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

American Standard Version

Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

Geneva Bible 1599

They turne iudgement to wormewood, and leaue off righteousnes in the earth.

Darby Translation

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

Young's Literal Translation

Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,

Bible in Basic English

You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;

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Cross references

“turn”

Amos 6:12 Deuteronomy 29:18 Hosea 10:4 Isaiah 1:23 Isaiah 5:7 Isaiah 10:1

Amos 6:12 · BSB

“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—

Deuteronomy 29:18 · BSB

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the LORD our God to go and worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is no root among you that bears such poisonous a…

Hosea 10:4 · BSB

They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Isaiah 1:23 · BSB

Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.

Isaiah 5:7 · BSB

For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

Isaiah 10:1 · BSB

Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,

“leave”

Ezekiel 3:20 Zephaniah 1:6 Psalm 36:3 Psalm 125:5 Ezekiel 18:24 Ezekiel 33:18

Ezekiel 3:20 · BSB

Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be re…

Zephaniah 1:6 · BSB

and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”

Psalm 36:3 · BSB

The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.

Psalm 125:5 · BSB

But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.

Ezekiel 18:24 · BSB

But if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and practices iniquity, committing the same abominations as the wicked, will he live? None of the righteous acts he did will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulnes…

Ezekiel 33:18 · BSB

If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

6Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth— the LORD is His name—

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