Charles Ellicott Commentary Amos 5:7

"Ye who turn justice to wormwood, and cast down righteousness to the earth," — Amos 5:7 (ASV)

It is placed after Amos 5:9 by Ewald, since Amos 5:7-8 stand in the Hebrew text without any connecting link. The holy thing “judgment” is perverted into the bitter thing “wormwood,” that which is detested.

Leave off. Or rather, cast down righteousness to the earth, that is, by false judgments and unjust decrees. Pusey sees here the analogue of the humiliation of the Holy One by wicked hands, when He was crowned with thorns and fell beneath His cross.