You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, Treasury of Scripture turn. Amos 5:11,12 For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone... Amos 6:12 Shall horses run on the rock? will one plow there with oxen? for you have turned judgment into gall... Deuteronomy 29:18 Lest there should be among you man, or woman, or family, or tribe, whose heart turns away this day from the LORD our God... Isaiah 1:23 Your princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loves gifts, and follows after rewards: they judge not the fatherless... Isaiah 5:7 For the vineyard of the LORD of hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant: and he looked for judgment... Isaiah 10:1 Woe to them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed; Isaiah 59:13,14 In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt... Hosea 10:4 They have spoken words, swearing falsely in making a covenant: thus judgment springs up as hemlock in the furrows of the field. Habakkuk 1:12-14 Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One? we shall not die. O LORD, you have ordained them for judgment; and... leave. Psalm 36:3 The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit: he has left off to be wise, and to do good. Psalm 125:5 As for such as turn aside to their crooked ways, the LORD shall lead them forth with the workers of iniquity... Ezekiel 3:20 Again, When a righteous man does turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumbling-block before him, he shall die... Ezekiel 18:24 But when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits iniquity... Ezekiel 33:12,13,18 Therefore, you son of man, say to the children of your people... Zephaniah 1:6 And them that are turned back from the LORD; and those that have not sought the LORD, nor inquired for him.
Context A Call to Repentance
4For thus said the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek you me, and you shall live: 5But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nothing. 6Seek the LORD, and you shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. 7You who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth, 8Seek him that makes the seven stars and Orion, and turns the shadow of death into the morning, and makes the day dark with night: that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth: The LORD is his name: 9That strengthens the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress. 10They hate him that rebukes in the gate, and they abhor him that speaks uprightly. 11For as much therefore as your treading is on the poor, and you take from him burdens of wheat: you have built houses of hewn stone, but you shall not dwell in them; you have planted pleasant vineyards, but you shall not drink wine of them. 12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right. 13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time. 14Seek good, and not evil, that you may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as you have spoken. 15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
Douay-Rheims Bible
You that turn judgment into wormwood, and forsake justice in the land,
Darby Bible Translation
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth,
King James Bible
Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,
Young's Literal Translation
Ye who are turning to wormwood judgment, And righteousness to the earth have put down,
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