Amos 5:7 Cross References

Amos 5:7

7: You wicked people! You twist justice, making it a bitter pill for the poor and oppressed. Righteousness and fair play are meaningless fictions to you.

Amos 6:12

  1. Can horses gallop over rocks? Can oxen be used to plow rocks? Stupid even to ask--but that's how stupid you are when you turn justice into poison and make bitter the sweet fruit of righteousness.

Hosea 10:4

  1. They spout empty words and make promises they don't intend to keep. So perverted justice springs up among them like poisonous weeds in a farmer's field.

Zephaniah 1:6

  1. And I will destroy those who used to worship me but now no longer do. They no longer ask for the LORD's guidance or seek my blessings."

Ezekiel 18:24

  1. However, if righteous people turn to sinful ways and start acting like other sinners, should they be allowed to live? No, of course not! All their previous goodness will be forgotten, and they will die for their sins.

Psalms 36:3

  1. Everything they say is crooked and deceitful. They refuse to act wisely or do what is good.

Isaiah 10:1

  1. Destruction is certain for the unjust judges, for those who issue unfair laws.

Isaiah 5:7

  1. This is the story of the LORD's people. They are the vineyard of the LORD Almighty. Israel and Judah are his pleasant garden. He expected them to yield a crop of justice, but instead he found bloodshed. He expected to find righteousness, but instead he heard cries of oppression.

Amos 5:11

  1. You trample the poor and steal what little they have through taxes and unfair rent. Therefore, you will never live in the beautiful stone houses you are building. You will never drink wine from the lush vineyards you are planting.
  2. For I know the vast number of your sins and rebellions. You oppress good people by taking bribes and deprive the poor of justice in the courts.

Isaiah 59:13

  1. We know that we have rebelled against the LORD. We have turned our backs on God. We know how unfair and oppressive we have been, carefully planning our deceitful lies.
  2. Our courts oppose people who are righteous, and justice is nowhere to be found. Truth falls dead in the streets, and fairness has been outlawed.

Habakkuk 1:12

  1. O LORD my God, my Holy One, you who are eternal--is your plan in all of this to wipe us out? Surely not! O LORD our Rock, you have decreed the rise of these Babylonians to punish and correct us for our terrible sins.
  2. You are perfectly just in this. But will you, who cannot allow sin in any form, stand idly by while they swallow us up? Should you be silent while the wicked destroy people who are more righteous than they?
  3. Are we but fish to be caught and killed? Are we but creeping things that have no leader to defend them from their enemies?

Ezekiel 33:18

  1. For again I say, when righteous people turn to evil, they will die.

Isaiah 1:23

  1. Your leaders are rebels, the companions of thieves. All of them take bribes and refuse to defend the orphans and the widows.

Psalms 125:5

  1. But banish those who turn to crooked ways, O LORD. Take them away with those who do evil. And let Israel have quietness and peace.

Ezekiel 33:12

  1. "Son of man, give your people this message: The good works of righteous people will not save them if they turn to sin, nor will the sins of evil people destroy them if they repent and turn from their sins.
  2. When I tell righteous people that they will live, but then they sin, expecting their past righteousness to save them, then none of their good deeds will be remembered. I will destroy them for their sins.

Deuteronomy 29:18

  1. The LORD made this covenant with you so that no man, woman, family, or tribe among you would turn away from the LORD our God to worship these gods of other nations, and so that no root among you would bear bitter and poisonous fruit.

Ezekiel 3:20

  1. If good people turn bad and don't listen to my warning, they will die. If you did not warn them of the consequences, then they will die in their sins. Their previous good deeds won't help them, and I will hold you responsible, demanding your blood for theirs.
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