Amos 5:7

Good News Translation

You are doomed, you that twist justice and cheat people out of their rights!

Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But when you punish the wicked, punish also those who abandon your ways. Peace be with Israel!

Psalm 36:3

Their speech is wicked and full of lies; they no longer do what is wise and good.

Proverbs 21:7

The wicked are doomed by their own violence; they refuse to do what is right.

Isaiah 1:23

Your leaders are rebels and friends of thieves; they are always accepting gifts and bribes. They never defend orphans in court or listen when widows present their case.

Isaiah 10:1

You are doomed! You make unjust laws that oppress my people.

Isaiah 46:12

“Listen to me, you stubborn people who think that victory is far away.

Isaiah 5:20

You are doomed! You call evil good and call good evil. You turn darkness into light and light into darkness. You make what is bitter sweet, and what is sweet you make bitter.

Isaiah 5:7

Israel is the vineyard of the Lord Almighty; the people of Judah are the vines he planted. He expected them to do what was good, but instead they committed murder. He expected them to do what was right, but their victims cried out for justice.

Ezekiel 18:24

“But if a righteous person stops doing good and starts doing all the evil, disgusting things that evil people do, will he go on living? No! None of the good he did will be remembered. He will die because of his unfaithfulness and his sins.

Ezekiel 3:20

“If someone truly good starts doing evil and I put him in a dangerous situation, he will die if you do not warn him. He will die because of his sins—I will not remember the good he did—and I will hold you responsible for his death.

Ezekiel 33:18

When someone righteous stops doing good and starts doing evil, he will die for it.

Hosea 10:4

They utter empty words and make false promises and useless treaties. Justice has become injustice, growing like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.

Amos 2:3

I will kill the ruler of Moab and all the leaders of the land.”

Amos 3:10

The Lord says, “These people fill their mansions with things taken by crime and violence. They don't even know how to be honest.

Amos 6:12

Do horses gallop on rocks? Does anyone plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison, and right into wrong.

Micah 3:9

Listen to me, you rulers of Israel, you that hate justice and turn right into wrong.

Habakkuk 1:4

The law is weak and useless, and justice is never done. Evil people get the better of the righteous, and so justice is perverted.

Zephaniah 1:6

I will destroy those who have turned back and no longer follow me, those who do not come to me or ask me to guide them.”

Deuteronomy 29:18

Make sure that no man, woman, family, or tribe standing here today turns from the Lord our God to worship the gods of other nations. This would be like a root that grows to be a bitter and poisonous plant.