Amos 5:7

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,

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  • Amos 6:12 : 12 Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough `it' with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.
  • Hos 10:4 : 4 They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.
  • Zeph 1:6 : 6 And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.
  • Amos 5:11-12 : 11 Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine. 12 For I have known -- many `are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.
  • Hab 1:12-14 : 12 Art not Thou of old, O Jehovah, my God, my Holy One? We do not die, O Jehovah, For judgment Thou hast appointed it, And, O Rock, for reproof Thou hast founded it. 13 Purer of eyes than to behold evil, To look on perverseness Thou art not able, Why dost Thou behold the treacherous? Thou keepest silent when the wicked Doth swallow the more righteous than he, 14 And Thou makest man as fishes of the sea, As a creeping thing -- none ruling over him.
  • Deut 29:18 : 18 lest there be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart is turning to-day from Jehovah our God, to go to serve the gods of those nations, lest there be in you a root fruitful of gall and wormwood:
  • Ps 36:3 : 3 The words of his mouth `are' iniquity and deceit, He ceased to act prudently -- to do good.
  • Ps 125:5 : 5 As to those turning `to' their crooked ways, Jehovah causeth them to go with workers of iniquity. Peace on Israel!
  • Isa 1:23 : 23 Thy princes `are' apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.
  • Isa 5:7 : 7 Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts `Is' the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.
  • Isa 10:1 : 1 Wo `to' those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.
  • Isa 59:13-14 : 13 Transgressing, and lying against Jehovah, And removing from after our God, Speaking oppression and apostacy, Conceiving and uttering from the heart Words of falsehood. 14 And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,
  • Ezek 3:20 : 20 `And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, and he hath done perversity, and I have put a stumbling-block before him, he dieth; because thou hast not warned him, in his sin he dieth, and not remembered is his righteousness that he hath done, and his blood from thy hand I require.
  • Ezek 18:24 : 24 And in the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, According to all the abominations That the wicked hath done, he doth -- thus he liveth, All his righteousnesses that he hath done are not remembered, For his trespass that he hath trespassed, And for his sin that he hath sinned, For them he doth die.
  • Ezek 33:12-13 : 12 And thou, son of man, say unto the sons of thy people: The righteousness of the righteous doth not deliver him in the day of his transgression, And the wickedness of the wicked, He doth not stumble for it in the day of his turning from his wickedness, And the righteous is not able to live in it in the day of his sinning. 13 In My saying of the righteous: He surely liveth, And -- he hath trusted on his righteousness, And he hath done perversity, All his righteous acts are not remembered, And for his perversity that he hath done, For it he doth die.
  • Ezek 33:18 : 18 In the turning back of the righteous from his righteousness, And he hath done perversity -- he dieth for it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 6:12
    78%

    12Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough `it' with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.

  • Isa 5:23
    78%

    23Declaring righteous the wicked for a bribe, And the righteousness of the righteous They turn aside from him.

  • Mic 3:9
    75%

    9Hear this, I pray you, heads of the house of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Who are making judgment abominable, And all uprightness do pervert.

  • Hab 1:4
    75%

    4Therefore doth law cease, And judgment doth not go forth for ever, For the wicked is compassing the righteous, Therefore wrong judgment goeth forth.

  • Isa 10:1-2
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    75%

    1Wo `to' those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

    2To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.

  • Prov 21:7
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    7The spoil of the wicked catcheth them, Because they have refused to do judgment.

  • Isa 5:7
    74%

    7Because the vineyard of Jehovah of Hosts `Is' the house of Israel, And the man of Judah His pleasant plant, And He waiteth for judgment, and lo, oppression, For righteousness, and lo, a cry.

  • Ps 107:34
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    34A fruitful land becometh a barren place, For the wickedness of its inhabitants.

  • Mal 2:17
    74%

    17Ye have wearied Jehovah with your words, And ye have said: `In what have we wearied Him?' In your saying: `Every evil-doer `is' good in the eyes of Jehovah, And in them He is delighting,' Or, `Where `is' the God of judgment?'

  • Isa 5:20
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    20Wo `to' those saying to evil `good,' And to good `evil,' Putting darkness for light, and light for darkness, Putting bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter.

  • Jer 7:5
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    5For, if ye do thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, If ye do judgment thoroughly Between a man and his neighbour,

  • Amos 5:8
    74%

    8The maker of Kimah and Kesil, And the turner to morning of death-shade, And day `as' night He hath made dark, Who is calling to the waters of the sea, And poureth them on the face of the earth, Jehovah `is' His name;

  • Amos 5:11-12
    2 verses
    74%

    11Therefore, because of your trampling on the poor, And the tribute of corn ye take from him, Houses of hewn work ye have built, And ye do not dwell in them, Desirable vineyards ye have planted, And ye do not drink their wine.

    12For I have known -- many `are' your transgressions, And mighty your sins, Adversaries of the righteous, taking ransoms, And the needy in the gate ye turned aside.

  • Mic 7:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2Perished hath the kind out of the land, And upright among men -- there are none, All of them for blood lie in wait, Each his brother they hunt `with' a net.

    3On the evil `are' both hands to do `it' well, The prince is asking -- also the judge -- for recompence, And the great -- he is speaking the mischief of his soul, And they wrap it up.

  • Job 36:17
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    17And the judgment of the wicked thou hast fulfilled, Judgment and justice are upheld -- because of fury,

  • Lam 3:35
    73%

    35To turn aside the judgment of a man, Over-against the face of the Most High,

  • Isa 59:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14And removed backward is judgment, And righteousness afar off standeth, For truth hath been feeble in the street, And straightforwardness is not able to enter,

    15And the truth is lacking, And whoso is turning aside from evil, Is making himself a spoil. And Jehovah seeth, and it is evil in His eyes, That there is no judgment.

  • Prov 17:15
    73%

    15Whoso is justifying the wicked, And condemning the righteous, Even both of these `are' an abomination to Jehovah.

  • Amos 2:7
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    7Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.

  • Hos 5:1
    73%

    1`Hear this, O priests, and attend, O house of Israel, And, O house of the king, give ear, For the judgment `is' for you, For, a snare ye have been on Mizpah, And a net spread out on Tabor.

  • Amos 8:4
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    4Hear this, ye who are swallowing up the needy, To cause to cease the poor of the land,

  • Prov 2:13
    72%

    13Who are forsaking paths of uprightness, To walk in ways of darkness,

  • Amos 5:6
    72%

    6Seek ye Jehovah, and live, Lest He prosper as fire `against' the house of Joseph, And it hath consumed, And there is no quencher for Beth-El.

  • Amos 5:24
    72%

    24And roll on as waters doth judgment, And righteousness as a perennial stream.

  • Jer 12:1
    72%

    1Righteous `art' Thou, O Jehovah, When I plead towards thee, Only, judgments do I speak with Thee, Wherefore did the way of the wicked prosper? At rest have been all treacherous dealers.

  • Zeph 2:3
    72%

    3Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the land, Who His judgment have done, Seek ye righteousness, seek humility, It may be ye are hidden in a day of the anger of Jehovah.

  • Ps 58:2
    72%

    2Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder.

  • Ps 7:9
    72%

    9Let, I pray Thee be ended the evil of the wicked, And establish Thou the righteous, And a trier of hearts and reins is the righteous God.

  • Job 8:3
    72%

    3Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?

  • Isa 3:14
    72%

    14Jehovah into judgment doth enter With elders of His people, and its heads: `And ye, ye have consumed the vineyard, Plunder of the poor `is' in your houses.

  • Jas 5:6
    72%

    6ye did condemn -- ye did murder the righteous one, he doth not resist you.

  • Isa 24:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5And the land hath been defiled under its inhabitants, Because they have transgressed laws, They have changed a statute, They have made void a covenant age-during.

    6Therefore a curse hath consumed the land, And the inhabitants in it are become desolate, Therefore consumed have been inhabitants of the land, And few men have been left.

  • Isa 1:17
    72%

    17Seek judgment, make happy the oppressed, Judge the fatherless, strive `for' the widow.

  • Isa 29:21
    72%

    21Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.

  • Hos 5:10
    72%

    10Princes of Judah have been as those removing a border, On them I do pour out as water My wrath.

  • Zeph 1:6
    71%

    6And those removing from after Jehovah, And who have not sought Jehovah, nor besought Him.

  • Zeph 1:12
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    12And it hath come to pass, at that time, I search Jerusalem with lights, And I have laid a charge on the men Who are hardened on their preserved things, Who are saying in their heart: Jehovah doth no good, nor doth He evil.

  • Joel 1:5
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    5Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, And howl all drinking wine, because of the juice, For it hath been cut off from your mouth.

  • Jer 5:28
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    28They have been fat, they have shone, Yea, they have overpassed the acts of the evil, Judgment they have not judged, The judgment of the fatherless -- and they prosper, And the judgment of the needy they have not judged.

  • Deut 27:19
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    19`Cursed `is' he who is turning aside the judgment of fatherless, sojourner, and widow, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

  • Prov 28:4
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    4Those forsaking the law praise the wicked, Those keeping the law plead against them.

  • Hos 10:12
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    12Sow for yourselves in righteousness, Reap according to loving-kindness, Till for yourselves tillage of knowledge, To seek Jehovah, Till he come and shew righteousness to you.

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    13And the land hath been for a desolation, Because of its inhabitants, Because of the fruit of their doings.

  • Joel 3:13
    71%

    13Send ye forth a sickle, For ripened hath harvest, Come in, come down, for filled hath been the press, Overflowed hath wine-presses, For great `is' their wickedness.

  • Ps 75:8
    71%

    8For a cup `is' in the hand of Jehovah, And the wine hath foamed, It is full of mixture, and He poureth out of it, Only its dregs wring out, and drink, Do all the wicked of the earth,