Amos 5:7 - New Revised Standard Version Catholic Interconfessional

⁷ Ah, you that turn justice to wormwood, and bring righteousness to the ground!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁷ Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁷ You who turn justice into [the bitterness of] wormwood and cast righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) down to the ground,

American Standard Version (1901)

⁷ Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

Common English Bible

⁷ Doom to you who turn justice into poison, and throw righteousness to the ground!

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁷ You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth.

Amos 5:7 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 125:5

But those who turn aside to their own crooked ways the Lord will lead away with evildoers. Peace be upon Israel!

Psalm 36:3

The words of their mouths are mischief and deceit; they have ceased to act wisely and do good.

Proverbs 21:7

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

Isaiah 1:23

Your princes are rebels and companions of thieves. Everyone loves a bribe and runs after gifts. They do not defend the orphan, and the widow's cause does not come before them.

Isaiah 10:1

Ah, you who make iniquitous decrees, who write oppressive statutes,

Isaiah 46:12

Listen to me, you stubborn of heart, you who are far from deliverance:

Isaiah 5:20

Ah, you 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

For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the people of Judah are his pleasant planting; he expected justice, but saw bloodshed; righteousness, but heard a cry!

Ezekiel 18:24

But when the righteous turn away from their righteousness and commit iniquity and do the same abominable things that the wicked do, shall they live? None of the righteous deeds that they have done shall be remembered; for the treachery of which they are guilty and the sin they have committed, they shall die.

Ezekiel 3:20

Again, if the righteous turn from their righteousness and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before them, they shall die; because you have not warned them, they shall die for their sin, and their righteous deeds that they have done shall not be remembered; but their blood I will require at your hand.

Ezekiel 33:18

When the righteous turn from their righteousness, and commit iniquity, they shall die for it.

Hosea 10:4

They utter mere words; with empty oaths they make covenants; so litigation springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of the field.

Amos 2:3

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

Amos 3:10

They do not know how to do right, says the Lord, those who store up violence and robbery in their strongholds.

Amos 6:12

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

Micah 3:9

Hear this, you rulers of the house of Jacob and chiefs of the house of Israel, who abhor justice and pervert all equity,

Habakkuk 1:4

So the law becomes slack and justice never prevails. The wicked surround the righteous— therefore judgment comes forth perverted.

Zephaniah 1:6

those who have turned back from following the Lord, who have not sought the Lord or inquired of him.

Deuteronomy 29:18

It may be that there is among you a man or woman, or a family or tribe, whose heart is already turning away from the Lord our God to serve the gods of those nations. It may be that there is among you a root sprouting poisonous and bitter growth.