Amos 5:7 - The Scriptures 2009

⁷ “O you who are turning right-ruling to wormwood, and have 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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁷ You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,

Amos 5:7 Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their crooked ways, יהוה shall lead them away With the workers of wickedness. Peace be upon Yisra’ĕl!

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; He has ceased to be wise, to do good.

Proverbs 21:7

The spoil of the wrong catches them, Because they refused to do right-ruling.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them.

Isaiah 10:1

“Woe to those making unrighteous inscriptions, and writers who have prescribed toil,

Isaiah 46:12

“Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness:

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 יהוה of hosts is the house of Yisra’ĕl, and the man of Yehuḏah is His pleasant plant. He looked for right-ruling, but see, oppression; for righteousness, but see, weeping.

Ezekiel 18:24

“But when a righteous one turns away from his righteousness and does unrighteousness, according to all the abominations that the wrong one has done, shall he live? All his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered. For his trespass which he has committed, and for his sin which he has committed, for them he shall die.

Ezekiel 3:20

“And when a righteous one turns from his righteousness and shall do unrighteousness, when I have put a stumbling-block before him, he shall die. Because you did not warn him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done is not remembered, and his blood I require at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:18

“When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does unrighteousness, he shall die because of it.

Hosea 10:4

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Therefore judgment shall spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Amos 2:3

“And I shall cut off the judge from its midst, and kill all its heads with him,” said יהוה.

Amos 3:10

But they do not know to do what is right,’ declares יהוה, ‘these who store up plunder and loot in their palaces.’ ”

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on a rock? Does one plough it with oxen? For you have turned right-ruling into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Micah 3:9

Hear this, please, you heads of the house of Ya‛aqoḇ and you rulers of the house of Yisra’ĕl, who despise right-ruling and distort all that is straight,

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the Torah ceases, and right-ruling never goes forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling comes out twisted.

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turn away from following יהוה, and who have not sought יהוה or inquired of Him.”

Deuteronomy 29:18

lest there should be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe, whose heart turns away today from יהוה our Elohim, to go and serve the mighty ones of these nations, lest there should be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood.