Amos 5:7
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Amos 5:7 in other translations
| BSB | There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground. |
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| WEB | You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth! |
| ASV | Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth, |
| YLT | Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down, |
| DARBY | Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth, |
| BBE | You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth; |
| Webster | Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness on the earth, |
What does Amos 5:7 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Amos 5:7-17
Matthew Henry, 1706 · public domain
Amos 5:7 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Amos 5:7
- Amos 6:12
Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
- Zephaniah 1:6
And them that are turned back from the Lord; and those that have not sought the Lord, nor enquired for him.
- Ezekiel 3:20
Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
- Hosea 10:4
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
- Deuteronomy 29:18
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
- Amos 5:11-12
Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
- Isaiah 5:7
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
- Psalms 125:5
As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the Lord shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel.
- Isaiah 59:13-14
In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
- Ezekiel 33:12-13
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth. When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
- Isaiah 10:1
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
- Ezekiel 18:24
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
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Context
- Amos 5:6
Seek the Lord, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beth–el.
- Amos 5:7
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
- Amos 5:8
Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name:
Amos 5:7 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Los que convierten en ajenjo el juicio, y dejan en tierra la justicia, |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Vous qui changez en absinthe le droit, et qui couchez par terre la justice, |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | sie verwandeln das Recht in Wermut und werfen die Gerechtigkeit zu Boden; - |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | qui convertitis in absinthium judicium, et justitiam in terra relinquitis): |