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KJV Lexicon Ye who turnhaphak (haw-fak') to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert judgment mishpat (mish-pawt') a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (participant's) divine law, individual or collective to wormwood la`anah (lah-an-aw') wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed) -- hemlock, wormwood. and leave off yanach (yaw-nakh') to deposit; by implication, to allow to stay righteousness tsdaqah (tsed-aw-kaw') rightness (abstractly), subjectively (rectitude), objectively (justice), morally (virtue) or figuratively (prosperity) -- justice, moderately, right(-eous) (act, -ly, -ness). in the earth 'erets (eh'-rets) the earth (at large, or partitively a land) -- common, country, earth, field, ground, land, natins, way, + wilderness, world. Parallel Verses New American Standard Bible For those who turn justice into wormwood And cast righteousness down to the earth." King James Bible Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, Holman Christian Standard Bible Those who turn justice into wormwood throw righteousness to the ground. International Standard Version Those of you who are making justice taste bitter, and who have thrown righteousness to the ground: NET Bible The Israelites turn justice into bitterness; they throw what is fair and right to the ground. GOD'S WORD® Translation You, Israel, turn justice into poison and throw righteousness on the ground. King James 2000 Bible You who turn justice to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, Links Amos 5:7Amos 5:7 NIV Amos 5:7 NLT Amos 5:7 ESV Amos 5:7 NASB Amos 5:7 KJV |