Amos 5:7

Those people turn justice into a bitter thing 1 and throw righteousness down to the ground!” 1

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

In Context

6Seek Yahweh and live, 1 or he will break out like fire 1 in the house of Joseph. 1 It will devour, 1 and there will be no one to quench it in Bethel. 1

8God made the Pleiades and Orion; 1 he turns darkness into the morning; 1 he makes the day dark with night 1 and calls for the waters of the sea; 1 he pours them out on the surface of the earth. 1 Yahweh is his name! 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 29:18Make sure there is not among you any man, woman, clan, or tribe whose heart is turning away today from Yahweh our God, so as to go worship the gods of those nations. Make sure there is not among you any root that produces gall and wormwood.

Psalms 125:5But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, 1 Yahweh will lead them away with the evildoers. 1 May peace be on Israel.

Isaiah 5:7For the vineyard of Yahweh of hosts is the house of Israel, 1 and the man of Judah his pleasant planting; 1 he waited for justice, but instead, there was killing; for righteousness, but, instead, a shout for help. 1

Isaiah 10:1Woe to those who enact unjust laws and write unfair decrees. 1

Isaiah 59:13We have rebelled, denying Yahweh and turning away from following our God. 1 We have spoken extortion and turning aside, conceived complaining from the heart and words of lying. 1

Ezekiel 18:24But if the righteous person turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity and practices abominations like all the abominations that the wicked person does, then will he live? All the righteousness that he had done will not be called to mind when he betrays me in his treason. So he will die in the sins that he committed.

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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