Amos 5:7New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— [For] those who turn justice into wormwood And cast righteousness down to the earth.”
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth;
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness on the earth,
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Ye who turn, into, wormwood, justice, and, righteousness—to the ground have let fall.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— They turne iudgement to wormewood, and leaue off righteousnes in the earth.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— Ye who turne iudgment to wormwood, and leaue off righteousnesse in the earth:
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— You who turn justice into bitterness, and lower righteousness to the ground,
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— [It is he] that executes judgment in the height [above], and he has established justice on the earth:
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, |
Ye who turn
2015 {2015} Primeהָפַךְhaphak{haw-fak'}
A primitive root; to turn about or over; by implication to change, overturn, return, pervert.
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
judgment
4941 {4941} Primeמִשְׁפָּטmishpat{mish-pawt'}
From H8199; properly a verdict (favorable or unfavorable) pronounced judicially, especially a sentence or formal decree (human or (particularly) divine law, individual or collectively), including the act, the place, the suit, the crime, and the penalty; abstractly justice, including a particular right, or privilege (statutory or customary), or even a style.
to wormwood,
3939 {3939} Primeלַעֲנָהla`anah{lah-an-aw'}
From an unused root supposed to mean to curse; wormwood (regarded as poisonous, and therefore accursed).
and leave off
y3240 [3240] Standardיָנַחyanach{yaw-nakh'}
A primitive root; to deposit; by implication to allow to stay. (The Hiphil forms with the dagesh are here referred to, in accordance with the older grammarians; but if any distinction of the kind is to be made, these should rather be referred to H5117, and the others here).
z8689 <8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2675
x5117 (5117) Complementנוּחַnuwach{noo'-akh}
A primitive root; to rest, that is, settle down; used in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, intransitively, transitively and causatively (to dwell, stay, let fall, place, let alone, withdraw, give comfort, etc.).
righteousness
6666 {6666} Primeצְדָקָהts@daqah{tsed-aw-kaw'}
From H6663; rightness (abstractly), subjectively ( rectitude), objectively ( justice), morally ( virtue) or figuratively ( prosperity).
in the earth,
776 {0776} Primeאֶרֶץ'erets{eh'-rets}
From an unused root probably meaning to be firm; the earth (at large, or partitively a land). |
Amos 5:7
_ _ 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 Isaiah 28:2; Daniel 8:12. |
Amos 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. |
Amos 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. |
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Amos 5:11-12 Forasmuch therefore as your treading [is] upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them. ... 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 upon the rock? will [one] plow [there] with oxen? for ye have turned judgment into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into hemlock:
Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth 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 beareth gall and wormwood;
Isaiah 1:23 Thy princes [are] rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts [is] the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment, but behold oppression; for righteousness, but behold a cry.
Isaiah 10:1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness [which] they have prescribed;
Isaiah 59:13-14 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. ... And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Hosea 10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Habakkuk 1:12-14 [Art] thou not from everlasting, O LORD my God, mine Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, thou hast ordained them for judgment; and, O mighty God, thou hast established them for correction. ... And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, [that have] no ruler over them?
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Psalms 36:3 The words of his mouth [are] iniquity and deceit: he hath left off to be wise, [and] to do good.
Psalms 125:5 As for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity: [but] peace [shall be] upon Israel.
Ezekiel 3:20 Again, When a righteous [man] doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.
Ezekiel 18:24 But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, [and] doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked [man] doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Ezekiel 33:12-13 Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy 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 turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his [righteousness] in the day that he sinneth. ... When I shall say to the righteous, [that] he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.
Ezekiel 33:18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
Zephaniah 1:6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and [those] that have not sought the LORD, nor enquired for him.
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