Amos 5:7

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible

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Contextual Overview

Bible Verse Review
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turn: Amos 5:11, Amos 5:12, Amos 6:12, Deuteronomy 29:18, Isaiah 1:23, Isaiah 5:7, Isaiah 10:1, Isaiah 59:13, Isaiah 59:14, Hosea 10:4, Habakkuk 1:12-14

leave: Psalms 36:3, Psalms 125:5, Ezekiel 3:20, Ezekiel 18:24, Ezekiel 33:12, Ezekiel 33:13, Ezekiel 33:18, Zephaniah 1:6

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 24:17 - pervert Psalms 147:8 - prepareth Proverbs 16:10 - transgresseth Proverbs 17:15 - that justifieth Amos 5:24 - let Habakkuk 1:4 - for John 8:15 - judge Acts 23:3 - for Revelation 8:11 - Wormwood

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Gill's Notes on the Bible

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood,.... This seems to be spoken to kings and judges, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi observe; in whose hands is the administration of justice, and who often pervert it, as these did here addressed and complained of; that which was the most useful and salubrious, and so the most desirable to the commonwealth, namely, just judgment, was changed into the reverse, what was as bitter and as disagreeable as wormwood; or "hemlock", as it might be rendered, and as it is in Amos 6:12; even injustice:

and leave off righteousness in the earth; leave off doing it among men: or rather, "leave [it] on the earth" c; who cast it down to the ground, trampled upon it, and there left it; which is expressive not only of their neglect, but of their contempt of it; see Daniel 8:12.

c הניחו "in terram prosterunt", Piscator; "justitiam in terram reliquerunt, i.e. humi prosternitis et deseritis", Mercerus; "collocantes humi", Junius & Tremellius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Ye who turn - Those whom he calls to seek God, were people filled with all injustice, who turned the sweetness of justice into the bitterness of wormwood . Moses had used “gall” and “wormwood” as a proverb; “lest there be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood; the Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and His jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him” Deuteronomy 29:18, Deuteronomy 29:20. The word of Amos would remind them of the word of Moses.

And leave off righteousness in the earth - Better, “and set righteousness to rest on the ground” . They dethroned righteousness, the representative and vice-gerent of God, and made it rest on the ground. The “little horn,” Daniel says, should “cast truth to the ground” Daniel 8:12. These seem to have blended outrage with insult, as when “the Lord our Righteousness” Jeremiah 23:6 took our flesh, “they put on Him” the “scarlet robe, and the crown of thorns” upon His Head, and bowed the knee before Him, and mocked Him,” and then “crucified Him.” They “deposed” her, “set her down,” it may be, with a mock make-believe deference, as people now-a-days, in civil terms, depose God, ignoring Him and His right over them. They set her on the ground and so left her, the image of God. This they did, not in one way only, but in all the ways in which they could. He does not limit it to the “righteousness” shown in doing justice. It includes all transactions between man and man, in which right enters, all buying and selling, all equity, all giving to another his due. All the bands of society were dissolved, and righteousness was placed on the ground, to be trampled on by all in all things.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 5:7. Ye who turn judgment to wormwood — Who pervert judgment; causing him who obtains his suit to mourn sorely over the expenses he has incurred in gaining his right.