Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground. New Living Translation You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the oppressed. You treat the righteous like dirt. English Standard Version O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth! Berean Standard Bible There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground. King James Bible Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, New King James Version You who turn justice to wormwood, And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!” New American Standard Bible For those who turn justice into wormwood, And throw righteousness to the earth.” NASB 1995 For those who turn justice into wormwood And cast righteousness down to the earth.” NASB 1977 For those who turn justice into wormwood And cast righteousness down to the earth.” Legacy Standard Bible For those who overturn justice into wormwood And put righteousness down to the earth.” Amplified Bible For those [shall be consumed] who turn justice into wormwood (bitterness) And cast righteousness down to the earth.” Christian Standard Bible Those who turn justice into wormwood also throw righteousness to the ground. Holman Christian Standard Bible Those who turn justice into wormwood throw righteousness to the ground. American Standard Version Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth, Contemporary English Version You people are doomed! You twist the truth and trample on justice. English Revised Version Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth; GOD'S WORD® Translation You, Israel, turn justice into poison and throw righteousness on the ground. Good News Translation You are doomed, you that twist justice and cheat people out of their rights! International Standard Version Those of you who are making justice taste bitter, and who have thrown righteousness to the ground: Majority Standard Bible There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground. NET Bible The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground. New Heart English Bible You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth: Webster's Bible Translation Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness on the earth, World English Bible You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth! Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionYou who are turning judgment to wormwood, "" And have put down righteousness to the earth!” Young's Literal Translation Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down, Smith's Literal Translation Turning judgment to wormwood and they put down justice in the earth. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleYou that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land, Catholic Public Domain Version You turn judgment into wormwood, and you abandon justice on earth. New American Bible The one who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn, and darkens day into night; Who summons the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth; New Revised Standard Version Ah, you that turn justice to wormwood, and bring righteousness to the ground! Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleYou who turn justice into bitterness, and lower righteousness to the ground, Peshitta Holy Bible Translated They who overturn judgment to rebellion and righteousness to the ground OT Translations JPS Tanakh 1917Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, And cast righteousness to the ground; Brenton Septuagint Translation It is he that executes judgment in the height above, and he has established justice on the earth: Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Call to Repentance…6Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it. 7There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground. 8He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—… Cross References Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who turn darkness to light and light to darkness, who replace bitter with sweet and sweet with bitter. Micah 3:9 Now hear this, O leaders of the house of Jacob and rulers of the house of Israel, who despise justice and pervert all that is right, Isaiah 59:14 So justice is turned away, and righteousness stands at a distance. For truth has stumbled in the public square, and honesty cannot enter. Jeremiah 23:14 And among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: They commit adultery and walk in lies. They strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns his back on wickedness. They are all like Sodom to Me; the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.” Hosea 10:4 They speak mere words; with false oaths they make covenants. So judgment springs up like poisonous weeds in the furrows of a field. Habakkuk 1:4 Therefore the law is paralyzed, and justice never goes forth. For the wicked hem in the righteous, so that justice is perverted. Isaiah 1:21 See how the faithful city has become a harlot! She once was full of justice; righteousness resided within her, but now only murderers! Isaiah 10:1-2 Woe to those who enact unjust statutes and issue oppressive decrees, / to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder. Jeremiah 5:28 They have grown fat and sleek, and have excelled in the deeds of the wicked. They have not taken up the cause of the fatherless, that they might prosper; nor have they defended the rights of the needy. Ezekiel 22:29 The people of the land have practiced extortion and committed robbery. They have oppressed the poor and needy and have exploited the foreign resident without justice. Matthew 23:23 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former. Luke 11:42 Woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithes of mint, rue, and every herb, but you disregard justice and the love of God. You should have practiced the latter without neglecting the former. Romans 1:18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness. Romans 2:8 But for those who are self-seeking and who reject the truth and follow wickedness, there will be wrath and anger. James 2:6 But you have dishonored the poor. Is it not the rich who oppress you and drag you into court? Treasury of Scripture You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, turn. Amos 5:11,12 Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them… Amos 6:12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock: Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; leave. Psalm 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, and to do good. Psalm 125:5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: but peace shall be upon Israel. Ezekiel 3:20 Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand. Jump to Previous Bitter Bitterness Cast Crushing Earth Ground Judging Judgment Justice Leave Righteousness Turn Turning Work WormwoodJump to Next Bitter Bitterness Cast Crushing Earth Ground Judging Judgment Justice Leave Righteousness Turn Turning Work WormwoodAmos 5 1. A lamentation for Israel.4. An exhortation to repentance. 21. God rejects their hypocritical service. You who turn This phrase addresses the people directly, indicating a deliberate action. The Hebrew root for "turn" is "הָפַךְ" (haphak), which means to overturn or transform. This suggests a willful distortion of what is right and just. Historically, this reflects the societal corruption in Israel, where leaders and judges were perverting justice for personal gain. justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground Leave off.--Or rather, cast down righteousness to the earth, i.e., by false judgments and unjust decrees. Pusey sees here the analogue of the humiliation of the Holy One by wicked hands, when He was crowned with thorns, and fell beneath His cross. Verse 7. - The prophet brings out the con-trust between Israel's moral corruption and God's omnipotence. Ye who turn judgment to wormwood. As Jerome puts it," Converterunt dulcedinem judicii in absinthii amaritudinem," "They turned the sweetness of judgment into the bitterness of absinth" (comp. Amos 6:12). Who make judgment the occasion of the bitterest injustice. There is no syntactical connection between this verse and the last, but virtually we may append it to "seek the Lord." It would sound in people's ears as a reminiscence of Deuteronomy 29:18, 20. The LXX. reads, ὁ ποιῶν εἰς ὕψος κρίμα. "that executeth judgment in the height," referring the sentence to the Lord, or else taking laanah, "wormwood," in a metaphorical sense, as elsewhere they translate it by ἀνάγκη πικρία, ὀδύνη (Deuteronomy 29:18; Proverbs 5:4; Jeremiah 9:15; Jeremiah 23:15). The name "wormwood" is applied to all the plants of the genus that grow in Palestine the taste of which was proverbially bitter. And leave off righteousness in the earth; rather, cast down righteousness to the earth (as Isaiah 28:2), despise it and trample it underfoot (comp. Daniel 8:12). This is Israel's practice; and yet God, as the next verse shows, is almighty, and has power to punish. Righteousness includes all transactions between man and man. The LXX. (still referring the subject to the Lord), καὶ δικαιοσύνην εἰς γῆν ἔθηκεν, "and he established righteousness on earth."Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew You who turnהַהֹפְכִ֥ים (ha·hō·p̄ə·ḵîm) Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural Strong's 2015: To turn about, over, to change, overturn, return, pervert justice מִשְׁפָּ֑ט (miš·pāṭ) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4941: A verdict, a sentence, formal decree, divine law, penalty, justice, privilege, style into wormwood לְלַעֲנָ֖ה (lə·la·‘ă·nāh) Preposition-l | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 3939: Wormwood and cast הִנִּֽיחוּ׃ (hin·nî·ḥū) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's 3240: Bestow, cast down, lay down, up, leave off, let alone remain, pacify, place, righteousness וּצְדָקָ֖ה (ū·ṣə·ḏā·qāh) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 6666: Rightness, subjectively, objectively to the ground— לָאָ֥רֶץ (lā·’ā·reṣ) Preposition-l, Article | Noun - feminine singular Strong's 776: Earth, land Links Amos 5:7 NIVAmos 5:7 NLT Amos 5:7 ESV Amos 5:7 NASB Amos 5:7 KJV Amos 5:7 BibleApps.com Amos 5:7 Biblia Paralela Amos 5:7 Chinese Bible Amos 5:7 French Bible Amos 5:7 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Amos 5:7 You who turn justice to wormwood (Amo. 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