Amos 5:7

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Amos 5:7

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

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KJV

King James Version

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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Berean Literal Bible

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Amos 5

⁵ Do not seek Bethel or go to Gilgal; do not journey to Beersheba, for Gilgal will surely go into exile, and Bethel will come to nothing.

⁶ Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.

⁷ There are those who turn justice into wormwood and cast righteousness to the ground.

⁸ He who made the Pleiades and Orion, who turns darkness into dawn and darkens day into night, who summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth—the LORD is His name—

⁹ He flashes destruction on the strong, so that fury comes upon the stronghold.

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