Amos 5:7 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁷ O you who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ You who turn justice into [the bitterness of] wormwood and cast righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) down to the ground,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

Common English Bible

⁷ Doom to you who turn justice into poison, and throw righteousness to the ground!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth.

Amos 5:7 Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside upon their crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers! Peace be in Israel!

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are mischief and deceit; he has ceased to act wisely and do good.

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is just.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Every one loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the fatherless, and the widow's cause does not come to them.

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those who decree iniquitous decrees, and the writers who keep writing oppression,

Isaiah 46:12

“Hearken to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from deliverance:

Isaiah 5:20

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant planting; and he looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed; for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

Ezekiel 18:24

But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and does the same abominable things that the wicked man does, shall he live? None of the righteous deeds which he has done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which he is guilty and the sin he has committed, he shall die.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you have not warned him, he shall die for his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:18

When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die for it.

Hosea 10:4

They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Amos 2:3

I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and will slay all its princes with him,” says the Lord.

Amos 3:10

“They do not know how to do right,” says the Lord, “those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.”

Amos 6:12

Do horses run upon rocks? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood—

Micah 3:9

Hear this, you heads of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,

Habakkuk 1:4

So the law is slacked and justice never goes forth. For the wicked surround the righteous, so justice goes forth perverted.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who do not seek the Lord or inquire of him.”

Deuteronomy 29:18

Beware lest there be among you a man or woman or family or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the Lord our God to go and serve the gods of those nations; lest there be among you a root bearing poisonous and bitter fruit,