Amos 5:7
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Context
This verse from Amos Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. A funeral lament over fallen Israel: the maiden Israel has fallen with no one to raise her up. God calls for seeking him rather than Bethel and declares that his day — the day of the Lord — is darkness …
Other Translations
Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,
You who make the work of judging a bitter thing, crushing down righteousness to the earth;
Cross References
Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turneth away this day from …
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity …
In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering …
Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
For the vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant …
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the …
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.
When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and …
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver …
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that …