Amos 5:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

הַהֹפְכִ֥ים לְלַעֲנָ֖ה מִשְׁפָּ֑ט וּצְדָקָ֖ה לָאָ֥רֶץ הִנִּֽיחוּ׃

Transliteration

Ha-hōphəkhîm lə-laʿănāh mishpāṭ and-ṣədāqāh lā-ʾāreṣ hinnîḥû

Grammar Details

*Ha-hōphəkhîm*: definite article + participle, qal, masculine plural - the ones turning
*lə-laʿănāh*: preposition + noun, feminine singular - to/for wormwood
*mishpāṭ*: noun, masculine singular - justice/judgment
*ṣədāqāh*: noun, feminine singular - righteousness
*lā-ʾāreṣ*: preposition + definite article + noun, feminine singular - to the ground
*hinnîḥû*: perfect, hiphil, 3rd masculine plural - they cast down

Word Meanings

*hōphəkhîm*: turning/overthrowing/changing/perverting
*laʿănāh*: wormwood/bitterness/poison
*mishpāṭ*: justice/judgment/legal decision/right
*ṣədāqāh*: righteousness/justice/rightness
*hinnîḥû*: cast down/set down/leave/abandon

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Referenced Verses

Amos 6:12 : 12 Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;
Hos 10:4 : 4 They speak vain words, swearing falsely in making covenants: therefore judgment springeth up as hemlock in the furrows of the field.
Zeph 1:6 : 6 and them that are turned back from following Jehovah; and those that have not sought Jehovah, nor inquired after him.
Amos 5:11-12 : 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. 12 For I know how manifold are your transgressions, and how mighty are your sins— ye that afflict the just, that take a bribe, and that turn aside the needy in the gate [from their right].
Hab 1:12-14 : 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. 13 Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he; 14 and makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?
Deut 29:18 : 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;
Ps 36:3 : 3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: He hath ceased to be wise [and] to do good.
Ps 125:5 : 5 But as for such as turn aside unto their crooked ways, Jehovah will lead them forth with the workers of iniquity. Peace be upon Israel.
Isa 1:23 : 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.
Isa 5:7 : 7 For the vineyard of Jehovah of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for justice, but, behold, oppression; for righteousness, but, behold, a cry.
Isa 10:1 : 1 Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;
Isa 59:13-14 : 13 transgressing and denying Jehovah, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood. 14 And justice is turned away backward, and righteousness standeth afar off; for truth is fallen in the street, and uprightness cannot enter.
Ezek 3:20 : 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.
Ezek 18:24 : 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? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.
Ezek 33:12-13 : 12 And 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; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall he that is righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sinneth. 13 When I say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his righteousness, and commit iniquity, none of his righteous deeds shall be remembered; but in his iniquity that he hath committed, therein shall he die.
Ezek 33:18 : 18 When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die therein.

Similar Verses (AI)

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Amos 6:12
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12Shall horses run upon the rock? will one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;
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1Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness;
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