Amos 5:7
What does Amos 5:7 mean?
A plain-English look at Amos 5:7 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
KJV
King James Version · 1611Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
Context
v.6Seek Jehovah, and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and it devour, and there be none to quench it in Beth-el.
v.7This passage
v.8seek him that maketh the Pleiades and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth (Jehovah is his name);
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Deuteronomy 29:18
lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations; lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood;
- Habakkuk 1:12
Art not thou from everlasting, O Jehovah my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O Jehovah, thou hast ordained him for judgment; and thou, O Rock, hast established him for correction.
- Isaiah 1:23
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves; every one loveth bribes, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
- Amos 5:11
Forasmuch therefore as ye trample upon the poor, and take exactions from him 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 the wine thereof.
- Hosea 10:4
They speakvainwords, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
- 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 righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.
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