Amos 5:7

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

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

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Amos 5:7 — 20 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Deuteronomy 29:18Make 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 and bitter fruit,
  2. Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
  3. Psalms 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
  4. Isaiah 1:23Your 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.
  5. Isaiah 5:7For 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.
  6. Isaiah 5:20Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter.
  7. Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
  8. Isaiah 46:12Listen to Me, you stubborn people, far removed from righteousness:
  9. Isaiah 59:13rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart.
  10. Ezekiel 3:20Now 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 remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.
  11. Ezekiel 18:24But 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 unfaithfulness and sin he has committed, he will die.
  12. Ezekiel 33:12Therefore, son of man, say to your people: ‘The righteousness of the righteous man will not deliver him in the day of his transgression; neither will the wickedness of the wicked man cause him to stumble on the day he turns from his wickedness. Nor will the righteous man be able to survive by his righteousness on the day he sins.’
  13. Ezekiel 33:18If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
  14. Hosea 10:4They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.
  15. Amos 5:11Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.
  16. Amos 6:12“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—
  17. Micah 3:9Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right,
  18. Habakkuk 1:4Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.
  19. Habakkuk 1:12Are You not from everlasting, O LORD, my God, my Holy One? We will not die. O LORD, You have appointed them to execute judgment; O Rock, You have established them for correction.
  20. Zephaniah 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”

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