Amos 5:7

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There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.

Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn to crooked ways the Lord will banish with the evildoers. Peace be on Israel.

Psalm 36:3

The words of their mouths are wicked and deceitful; they fail to act wisely or do good.

Proverbs 21:7

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

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are rebels, partners with thieves; they all love bribes and chase after gifts. They do not defend the cause of the fatherless; the widow’s case does not come before them.

Isaiah 10:1

Woe to those who make unjust laws, to those who issue oppressive decrees,

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you stubborn-hearted, you who are now far from my righteousness.

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.

Isaiah 5:7

The vineyard of the Lord Almighty is the nation of Israel, and the people of Judah are the vines he delighted in. And he looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard cries of distress.

Ezekiel 18:24

“But if a righteous person turns from their righteousness and commits sin and does the same detestable things the wicked person does, will they live? None of the righteous things that person has done will be remembered. Because of the unfaithfulness they are guilty of and because of the sins they have committed, they will die.

Ezekiel 3:20

“Again, when a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before them, they will die. Since you did not warn them, they will die for their sin. The righteous things that person did will not be remembered, and I will hold you accountable for their blood.

Ezekiel 33:18

If a righteous person turns from their righteousness and does evil, they will die for it.

Hosea 10:4

They make many promises, take false oaths and make agreements; therefore lawsuits spring up like poisonous weeds in a plowed field.

Amos 2:3

I will destroy her ruler and kill all her officials with him,” says the Lord.

Amos 3:10

“They do not know how to do right,” declares the Lord, “who store up in their fortresses what they have plundered and looted.”

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on the rocky crags? Does one plow the sea with oxen? But you have turned justice into poison and the fruit of righteousness into bitterness—

Micah 3:9

Hear this, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel, who despise justice and distort all that is right;

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never prevails. The wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who turn back from following the Lord and neither seek the Lord nor inquire of him.”

Deuteronomy 29:18

Make sure there is no man or woman, clan or tribe among you today whose heart turns away from the Lord our God to go and worship the gods of those nations; make sure there is no root among you that produces such bitter poison.