Amos 5:7

New American Bible - revised edition

Woe to those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground,

Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to crooked ways may the Lord send down with the evildoers. Peace upon Israel!

Psalm 36:3

For he lives with the delusion: his guilt will not be known and hated.

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the wicked will sweep them away, because they refuse to do what is right.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and comrades of thieves; Each one of them loves a bribe and looks for gifts. The fatherless they do not defend, the widow’s plea does not reach them.

Isaiah 10:1

Ah! Those who enact unjust statutes, who write oppressive decrees,

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you fainthearted, far from the victory of justice:

Isaiah 5:20

Ah! Those who call evil good, and good evil, who change darkness to light, and light into darkness, who change bitter to sweet, and sweet into bitter!

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, the people of Judah, his cherished plant; He waited for judgment, but see, bloodshed! for justice, but hark, the outcry!

Ezekiel 18:24

And if the just turn from justice and do evil, like all the abominations the wicked do, can they do this evil and still live? None of the justice they did shall be remembered, because they acted treacherously and committed these sins; because of this, they shall die.

Ezekiel 3:20

But if the just turn away from their right conduct and do evil when I place a stumbling block before them, then they shall die. Since you did not warn them about their sin, they shall still die, and the just deeds that they performed will not be remembered on their behalf. I will, however, hold you responsible for their blood.

Ezekiel 33:18

When the just turn away from justice and do wrong, they shall die for it.

Hosea 10:4

They make promises, swear false oaths, and make covenants, While lawsuits sprout like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field!

Amos 2:3

I will cut off the ruler from its midst, and all the princes I will slay with him, says the Lord.

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do what is right— oracle of the Lord— Storing up in their strongholds violence and destruction.

Amos 6:12

Can horses run over rock, or can one plow the sea with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Micah 3:9

Hear this, you leaders of the house of Jacob, you rulers of the house of Israel! You who abhor justice, and pervert all that is right;

Habakkuk 1:4

This is why the law is numb and justice never comes, For the wicked surround the just; this is why justice comes forth perverted.

Zephaniah 1:6

And those who have turned away from the Lord, and those who have not sought the Lord, who have not inquired of him.

Deuteronomy 29:18

if any such persons, after hearing the words of this curse, should congratulate themselves, saying in their hearts, “I am safe, even though I walk in stubbornness of heart,” thereby sweeping away moist and dry alike,