Amos 5:7

Tree of Life Version

You who turn justice to wormwood threw righteousness to the ground.

Cross References

Psalm 125:5

But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, Adonai will lead them away with evildoers. Shalom be upon Israel.

Psalm 36:3

For he flatters himself in his own eyes, too much to notice his iniquity —or hate it.

Proverbs 21:7

The violence of the wicked sweeps them away, because they refuse to act justly.

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebellious and friends with thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and chases after rewards. They do not defend the orphan, nor does a widow’s case come to them.

Isaiah 10:1

Oy to those enacting unjust decrees and recording corrupt legislation,

Isaiah 46:12

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

Isaiah 5:20

Oy to those who call evil good and good evil, who present darkness as light and light as darkness, who present bitter as sweet, and sweet as bitter!

Isaiah 5:7

For the vineyard of Adonai-Tzva’ot is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah the planting of His delight. He looked for justice, but behold, bloodshed, for righteousness, but behold, a cry!

Ezekiel 18:24

But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity and does according to all the detestable acts that the wicked man does, will he live? None of his righteous deeds that he has done will be remembered; for his trespass that he trespassed and for his sin that he has sinned, for them he will die.

Ezekiel 3:20

When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and acts perversely, I will lay a stumbling block before him and he will die. Because you have not warned him, he will die in his sin. His righteous deeds that he has done will not be remembered—but I will require his blood at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:18

When a righteous person turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, he will die in it.

Hosea 10:4

They spoke words— empty oaths to make a covenant. But judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Amos 2:3

I will cut off the ruler from her midst, and slay all her princes with him. Thus Adonai has said. As for Judah and Israel

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to be honest, —declares Adonai— those who are saving up violence and destruction in their citadels.

Amos 6:12

Will horses run on the cliff? Will one plow there with oxen? Yet you turned justice into venom, the fruit of righteousness into wormwood.

Micah 3:9

Hear this, leaders of the house of Jacob, rulers of the house of Israel: You who abhor justice, and twist everything upright,

Habakkuk 1:4

Therefore, Torah has no effect, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked encircle the righteous Therefore justice comes out perverted.

Zephaniah 1:6

those turning from following Adonai, not seeking Adonai or consulting Him.

Deuteronomy 29:18

“Now when someone hears the words of this oath and in his heart considers himself blessed, thinking, ‘Shalom will be mine, even though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart’—thus sweeping away the moist with the dry—