| Amos 5:7 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | For those who turn justice into wormwood And cast righteousness down to the earth." (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | You, Israel, turn justice into poison and throw righteousness on the ground.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, |
| ASV: | Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth, |
| BBE: | You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth; |
| DBY: | Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth, |
| ERV: | Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth; |
| JPS: | Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast righteousness to the ground; |
| WBS: | Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness on the earth, |
| WEB: | You who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth: |
| YLT: | Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down, |
| Amos 5:7 Cross References |
| XREF: | Amos 2:3 "I will also cut off the judge from her midst And slay all her princes with him," says the LORD.
Amos 5:12 For I know your transgressions are many and your sins are great, You who distress the righteous and accept bribes And turn aside the poor in the gate.
Amos 6:12 Do horses run on rocks? Or does one plow them with oxen? Yet you have turned justice into poison And the fruit of righteousness into wormwood, (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 5:7 Ye who turn {d} judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
(d) Instead of judgment and fairness they execute cruelty and oppression. |
| WES: | 5:7 Ye - Rulers and judges. Judgment - The righteous sentence of the law. To wormwood - Proverbially understood; bitterness, injustice and oppression. Leave off - Make to cease in your courts of judicature. |
| MHC: | 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. |
| CONC: | Bitter Bitterness Cast Crushing Ground Judging Judgment Justice Leave O Righteousness Turn Turning Wormwood |
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