Amos 5:7

God's Word

You, Israel, turn justice into poison and throw righteousness on the ground.

Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But when people become crooked, the Lord will lead them away with troublemakers. Let there be peace in Israel!

Psalm 36:3

The words from his mouth are ⌞nothing but⌟ trouble and deception. He has stopped doing what is wise and good.

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of wicked people will drag them away since they refuse to do what is just.

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels, friends with thieves. They all love bribes and run after gifts. They never defend orphans. They don’t notice the widows’ pleas.

Isaiah 10:1

How horrible it will be for those who make unjust laws and who make oppressive regulations.

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you stubborn people who are far from being righteous.

Isaiah 5:20

How horrible it will be for those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness into light and light into darkness, who turn what is bitter into something sweet and what is sweet into something bitter.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of Armies is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the garden of his delight. He hoped for justice but saw only slaughter, for righteousness but heard only cries of distress.

Ezekiel 18:24

“But suppose a righteous person turns away from doing right and he does evil things. He does all the disgusting things that the wicked person did. Will he live? All the right things that he has done will not be remembered because of his unfaithfulness and because of his sin. He will die because of them.

Ezekiel 3:20

If righteous people turn from living the right way and do wrong, I will make them stumble, and they will die. If you don’t warn them, they will die because of their sin, and the right things they did will not be remembered. I will hold you responsible for their deaths.

Ezekiel 33:18

If the righteous person turns from the right things that he has done and does evil, he will die because of it.

Hosea 10:4

They say many things. They lie when they take oaths, and they make promises they don’t intend to keep. That’s why lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field.

Amos 2:3

I will take their judges away from them. I will kill all their officials at the same time. The Lord has said this.

Amos 3:10

Those who collect profits in their palaces through violent and destructive acts don’t know how to do what is right, declares the Lord.

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on rocks? Does a farmer plow the sea with oxen? Yet, you have turned justice into something deadly and what is righteous into poison.

Micah 3:9

Listen to this, you leaders of the descendants of Jacob, you rulers of the nation of Israel. You despise justice and pervert everything that is right.

Habakkuk 1:4

That is why your teaching is numbed, and justice is never carried out. Wicked people surround righteous people so that when justice is carried out, it’s perverted.

Zephaniah 1:6

I will remove those who have turned away from following the Lord and those who no longer seek the Lord or ask him for help.”

Deuteronomy 29:18

Make sure there is no man, woman, family, or tribe among you today who turns from the Lord our God to worship the gods of those nations. Make sure that no one among you is the source of this kind of bitter poison.