Amos 5:7

The Scriptures 1998

“O you who are turning right-ruling to wormwood, and have cast down righteousness to the earth!”

Cross References

Amos 6:12

Do horses run on a rock? Does one plough it with oxen? For you have turned right-ruling into poison, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood,

Zephaniah 1:6

and those who turn away from following יהוה, and who have not sought יהוה  or inquired of Him.”

Hosea 10:4

They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant. Therefore judgment shall spring up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Ezekiel 3:20

“And when a righteous one turns from his righteousness and shall do unrighteousness, when I have put a stumbling-block before him, he shall die. Because you did not warn him, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done is not remembered, and his blood I require at your hand.

Deuteronomy 29:18

lest there should be among you a man or woman or clan or tribe, whose heart turns away today from יהוה  our Elohim, to go and serve the mighty ones of these nations, lest there should be among you a root bearing bitterness or wormwood.

Ezekiel 33:18

“When the righteous turns from his righteousness and does unrighteousness, he shall die because of it.

Ezekiel 18:24

“But when a righteous one turns away from his righteousness and does unrighteousness, according to all the abominations that the wrong one has done, shall he live? All his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered. For his trespass which he has committed, and for his sin which he has committed, for them he shall die.

Isaiah 10:1

“Woe to those making unrighteous laws, and writers who have prescribed toil,

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of יהוה  of hosts is the house of Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 1:23

Your rulers are stubborn, and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes, and runs after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow reach them.

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their crooked ways, יהוה  shall lead them away With the workers of wickedness. Peace be upon Yisra’ĕ

Psalm 36:3

The words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit; He has ceased to be wise, to do good.

Proverbs 21:7

The spoil of the wrong catches them, Because they refused to do right- ruling.

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 shall cut off the judge from its midst, and slay all its heads with him,” said יהוה.

Amos 3:10

‘But they do not know to do what is right,’ declares יהוה, ‘these who store up plunder and loot in their palaces.’ ”

Isaiah 46:12

“Listen to Me, you stubborn-hearted, who are far from righteousness:

Micah 3:9

Hear this, please, you heads of the house of Yaʽ

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore the Torah ceases, and right-ruling never goes forth. For the wrong hem in the righteous, so that right-ruling comes out twisted.