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Amos 5:7

Justice

5 Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

6 Seek 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.

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

8 He 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—

9 He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.
KJV
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
WEB
You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth!
ASV
Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
DARBY
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
BLB
You who are turning justice into wormwood and laying to rest righteousness in the earth—
ÅB
De som forvender retten til malurt og kaster rettferdigheten til jorden!
OTB
Det er de som forvandler rettferdighet til bitterhet
og kaster rettferdighet til jorden.
B1930
De som forvender retten til malurt og kaster rettferdigheten til jorden!

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Amos 6:12

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

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  • Zephaniah 1:6

    and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.”

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  • Ezekiel 3:20

    Now if a righteous man turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. If you did not warn him, he will die in his sin, and the righteous acts he did will not be remembered. And I will hold you responsible for his blood.

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  • 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.

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  • 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 bears such poisonous and bitter fruit,

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  • Amos 5:11–12

    Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

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  • Isaiah 5:7

    For the vineyard of the LORD of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are the plant of His delight. He looked for justice, but saw bloodshed; for righteousness, but heard a cry of distress.

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  • Psalms 125:5

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

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