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Amos 5:7

7 You who hturn justice to wormwood,

And lay righteousness to rest in the earth!”

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Amos 5:7 — The New International Version (NIV)

There are those who turn justice into bitterness

and cast righteousness to the ground.

Amos 5:7 — English Standard Version (ESV)

O you who turn justice to wormwood

and cast down righteousness to the earth!

Amos 5:7 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood,

And leave off righteousness in the earth,

Amos 5:7 — New Living Translation (NLT)

You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the oppressed.

You treat the righteous like dirt.

Amos 5:7 — New Century Version (NCV)

You turn justice upside down,

and you throw on the ground what is right.

Amos 5:7 — American Standard Version (ASV)

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

Amos 5:7 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

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

Amos 5:7 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

You, Israel, turn justice into poison 

and throw righteousness on the ground. 

Amos 5:7 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Those who turn justice into wormwood

throw righteousness to the ground.

Amos 5:7 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Ah, you that turn justice to wormwood,

and bring righteousness to the ground!

Amos 5:7 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Ah, you who turn justice into wormwood and hurl righteousness to the ground!

Amos 5:7 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

You turn what is fair into something bitter.

What is right you throw down to the ground.

Amos 5:7 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

For those who turn justice into wormwood

And cast righteousness down to the earth.”


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