Amos 5:7

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

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,

LSV

You who are turning judgment to wormwood, || And have put down righteousness to the earth!”

YLT

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

DBY

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

DRC

You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,

GNV

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

JPS

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast righteousness to the ground;

LXXE

It is he that executes judgment in the height above, and he has established justice on the earth:

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WLC

הַהֹפְכִ֥ים לְלַעֲנָ֖ה מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּצְדָקָ֖ה לָאָ֥רֶץ הִנִּֽיחוּ׃

LXX-Br

Ὁ ποιῶν εἰς ὕψος κρίμα, καὶ δικαιοσύνην εἰς γῆν ἔθηκεν·

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• 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—
• 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…
• Amos 5:11–12Therefore, 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. For I know…
• Zephaniah 1:6and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”
• 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…
• 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.
• Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees,
• 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.
• 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…
• 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.
• Isaiah 59:13–14rebelling and denying the LORD, turning away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering lies from the heart. So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has…
• Psalms 36:3The words of his mouth are wicked and deceitful; he has ceased to be wise and well-doing.
• Habakkuk 1:12–14Are 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. Your eyes are too pure to look upon…
• Psalms 125:5But those who turn to crooked ways the LORD will banish with the evildoers. Peace be upon Israel.
• Ezekiel 33:18If a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die for it.
• Ezekiel 33:12–13Therefore, 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…

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