Amos 5:7

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Amos 6:12 : 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:
  • Hos 10:4 : 4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as poison in the furrows of the field.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.
  • Amos 5:11-12 : 11 Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. 12 For I know your many 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.
  • Hab 1:12-14 : 12 Are You not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? We shall not die. O LORD, You have appointed them for judgment; O mighty God, You have established them for correction. 13 You are of purer eyes than to behold evil and cannot look on wickedness. Why do You look on those who deal treacherously and hold Your tongue when the wicked devours a man more righteous than he? 14 You make men like the fish of the sea, like creeping things that have no ruler over them.
  • Deut 29:18 : 18 Lest there should be among you a man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God, to go and serve the gods of these nations; lest there should be among you a root that bears bitter poison and wormwood;
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has ceased to be wise, and to do good.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for those who turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them away with the workers of iniquity; peace shall be upon Israel.
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: everyone loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they do not judge the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come to them.
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.
  • Isa 10:1 : 1 Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed;
  • Isa 59:13-14 : 13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
  • Ezek 3:20 : 20 Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die: because you have not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.
  • Ezek 18:24 : 24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and does according to all the abominations that the wicked man does, should he live? All his righteousness that he has done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he has trespassed, and in his sin that he has sinned, in them he shall die.
  • Ezek 33:12-13 : 12 Therefore, son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins. 13 When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trusts in his own righteousness, and commits iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he has committed, he shall die for it.
  • Ezek 33:18 : 18 When the righteous turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, he shall die because of it.

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    12Shall 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:

  • Isa 5:23
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    23Who justify the wicked for a reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

  • Mic 3:9
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    9Hear this, I pray you, you leaders of the house of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel, who abhor judgment, and pervert all equity.

  • Hab 1:4
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    4Therefore the law is powerless, and justice never goes forth, for the wicked surround the righteous; therefore perverse judgment proceeds.

  • Isa 10:1-2
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    1Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and who write out oppressive laws they have prescribed;

    2To turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the rights from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The robbery of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice.

  • Isa 5:7
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    7For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah are his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

  • Ps 107:34
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    34A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.

  • Mal 2:17
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    17You have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet you say, How have we wearied him? When you say, Everyone that does evil is good in the sight of the LORD, and he delights in them; or, Where is the God of justice?

  • Isa 5:20
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    20Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

  • Jer 7:5
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    5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your deeds; if you thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbor;

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    8Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night; that calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name:

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    11Since you tread upon the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them.

    12For I know your many 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.

  • Mic 7:2-3
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    2The good man has perished from the earth, and there is no one upright among men; they all lie in wait for blood, they hunt each his brother with a net.

    3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • Job 36:17
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    17But you have fulfilled the judgment of the wicked: judgment and justice take hold on you.

  • Lam 3:35
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    35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

  • Isa 59:14-15
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    14And judgment is turned backward, and justice stands far off: for truth has fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

    15Yes, truth fails; and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

  • Prov 17:15
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    15He who justifies the wicked, and he who condemns the just, both of them are an abomination to the LORD.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go in to the same maid, to profane My holy name:

  • Hos 5:1
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    1Listen to this, O priests; and pay attention, O house of Israel; and give ear, O house of the king; for judgment is toward you, because you have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

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    4Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land fail,

  • Prov 2:13
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    13Who leave the paths of uprightness to walk in the ways of darkness;

  • Amos 5:6
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    6Seek the LORD, and you 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.

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    24But let judgment run down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

  • Jer 12:1
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    1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead with You; yet let me speak with You about Your judgments. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why are all those happy who deal very treacherously?

  • Zeph 2:3
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    3Seek the LORD, all you meek of the earth, who have carried out His judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be you shall be hidden in the day of the LORD'S anger.

  • Ps 58:2
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    2Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • Ps 7:9
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    9Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God tries the hearts and minds.

  • Job 8:3
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    3Does God pervert judgment, or does the Almighty pervert justice?

  • Isa 3:14
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    14The LORD will enter into judgment with the elders of His people, and their princes: for you have eaten up the vineyard; the plunder of the poor is in your houses.

  • Jas 5:6
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    6You have condemned and killed the righteous; and he does not resist you.

  • Isa 24:5-6
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    5The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

    6Therefore the curse has devoured the earth, and those who dwell in it are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.

  • Isa 1:17
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    17Learn to do well; seek justice, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

  • Isa 29:21
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    21That make a man an offender by a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

  • Hos 5:10
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    10The princes of Judah were like those who remove a boundary: therefore I will pour out my wrath upon them like water.

  • Zeph 1:6
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    6And those that have turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for Him.

  • Zeph 1:12
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    12And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and punish the men who are settled in complacency: that say in their heart, 'The LORD will not do good, nor will He do evil.'

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Awake, you drunkards, and weep; and howl, all you drinkers of wine, because of the new wine; for it is cut off from your mouth.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

  • Deut 27:19
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    19Cursed be he who perverts the judgment of the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.

  • Prov 28:4
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    4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law contend with them.

  • Hos 10:12
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    12Sow for yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, until he comes and rains righteousness on you.

  • Mic 7:13
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    13Yet the land shall be desolate because of those who dwell in it, for the fruit of their doings.

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    13Put in the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come, get down, for the press is full, the vats overflow, for their wickedness is great.

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    8For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he pours out the same; but the dregs of it, all the wicked of the earth shall drain and drink.