Amos 5:7 There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
There are those who turn justice into bitterness and cast righteousness to the ground.

English Standard Version
O you who turn justice to wormwood and cast down righteousness to the earth!

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:

American Standard Version
Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

Douay-Rheims Bible
You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,

Darby Bible Translation
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

Young's Literal Translation
Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,

Cross References

Proverbs 21:7
The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

Isaiah 5:20
Woe to them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Hosea 10:4
They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.

Amos 2:3
And I will cut off the judge from the middle thereof, and will slay all the princes thereof with him, said the LORD.

Amos 3:10
For they know not to do right, said the LORD, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

Amos 5:12
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

Amos 6:12
Shall horses run on the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for you have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

5:7-17 The same almighty power can, for repenting sinners, easily turn affliction and sorrow into prosperity and joy, and as easily turn the prosperity of daring sinners into utter darkness. Evil times will not bear plain dealing; that is, evil men will not. And these men were evil men indeed, when wise and good men thought it in vain even to speak to them. Those who will seek and love that which is good, may help to save the land from ruin. It behoves us to plead God's spiritual promises, to beseech him to create in us a clean heart, and to renew a right spirit within us. The Lord is ever ready to be gracious to the souls that seek him; and then piety and every duty will be attended to. But as for sinful Israel, God's judgments had often passed by them, now they shall pass through them.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

7. turn judgment to wormwood—that is, pervert it to most bitter wrong. As justice is sweet, so injustice is bitter to the injured. "Wormwood" is from a Hebrew root, to "execrate," on account of its noxious and bitter qualities.

leave on righteousness in … earth—Maurer translates, "cast righteousness to the ground," as in Isa 28:2; Da 8:12.