Amos 5:7 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁷ Ye who turn judgement 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.

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 as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, The LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath left off to be wise and to do good.

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away; Because they refuse to do judgement.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Isaiah 10:1

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness:

Isaiah 46:12

Hearken unto me, ye stouthearted, that are far from righteousness:

Isaiah 5:20

Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that 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 his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgement, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.

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? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

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 righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Ezekiel 33:18

When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.

Hosea 10:4

They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgement springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Amos 2:3

and I will cut off the judge from the midst thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, saith the LORD.

Amos 3:10

For they know not to do right, saith the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned judgement into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood:

Micah 3:9

Hear this, I pray you, ye heads of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, that abhor judgement, and pervert all equity.

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgement doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore judgement goeth forth perverted.

Zephaniah 1:6

and them that are turned back from following the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired after him.

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 to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;