Amos 5:7

Ye who turn mishpat into wormwood, 1 and cast tzedakah to the ground. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

In Context

6Seek Hashem, and live; 1 lest He break out like eish in Bais Yosef, 1 and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Beit-El. 1

8Seek Him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, 1 and turneth tzalmavet into boker, 1 and maketh the yom into lailah; 1 that calleth for the waters of the yam, 1 and poureth them out upon the face of ha'aretz; 1 Hashem Shmo; 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:18And it come to pass, when he heareth the divrei haalah (words of this oath, imprecation) that he bless himself in his lev, saying, Shalom be with me, though I walk in the stubbornness of mine lev — thus bringing disaster on both the watered and the thirsty.

Psalms 125:5As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, 1 Hashem shall turn them away with the workers of iniquity; 1 but shalom shall be upon Yisroel.

Isaiah 5:7For the Kerem Hashem Tzva'os 1 is Bais Yisroel, 1 and the Ish Yehudah 1 are the planting of His delight; 1 and He looked for mishpat (justice), 1 but, hinei, mishpach (bloodshed, rapaciousness); 1 for tzedakah, but, hinei, tze'akah (cry of distress). 1

Isaiah 10:1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous chukim, 1 and that write decrees of oppression; 1

Isaiah 59:13In rebelling against and kachash (denying) Hashem, 1 and nasog (turning away) from Eloheinu, 1 speaking oshek (oppression) and sarah (revolt), 1 conceiving and uttering from the lev (heart) divrei sheker (words of falsehood). 1

Ezekiel 18:24But when the tzaddik turneth away from his tzedek, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the to'evot that the rashah doeth, shall he live? All his tzedek that he hath done shall not be remembered; in his ma'al (unfaithfulness) that he hath committed treachery, and in his chattat that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

Matthew Henry on Amos 5:5-16

God's Message to Israel; The Aggravated Sins of Israel; Warnings and Exhortations; Exhortations and Encouragements. ( b. c. 790.) 4 For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: 5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. 6 Seek the Lord , and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. 7 Ye who… Read the whole commentary →

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