Amos 5:7

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

Amos 6:12

Shall horses run upon the rock? Will [a man] plow [there] with oxen? That ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who are turned back from following LORD, and those who have not sought LORD, nor inquired after him.

Hosea 10:4

They speak [vain] words, swearing falsely in making covenants. Therefore judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die. Because thou have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which h

Deuteronomy 29:18

Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from LORD our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations. Lest there should be among you a root that bears gall and wormwood,

Ezekiel 33:18

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

Ezekiel 18:24

But when a righteous man turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that a wicked man does, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done shall be remembered. I

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write perverseness,

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant. And he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression, for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.

Isaiah 1:23

Thy rulers are rebellious, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and follows after rewards. They judge not the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.

Psalm 125:5

But as for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, LORD will 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 has ceased to be wise [and] to do good.

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the wicked shall sweep them away, because they refuse to do justice.

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!

Amos 2:3

And I will cut off the judge from the midst of it, and will kill all the rulers of it with him, says LORD.

Amos 3:10

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

Isaiah 46:12

Hearken to me, ye stout-hearted, who are far from righteousness:

Micah 3:9

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

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is slacked, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked man surrounds the righteous man, therefore justice goes forth perverted.